Nearly 49 percent of the Cornell Graduate School's 1,995 new students this year are from other countries, and admissions are more selective and competitive, with a 5 percent jump in applications. (Sept. 13, 2012)
Helen Faith 'Happy' Keane Reichert '25, who had been the oldest living Cornell graduate, died Sept. 25 at her apartment in New York City. (Sept. 27, 2011)
In an installation in Sibley Dome this semester, artist, architect and educator Dennis Maher, B.Arch. ’99, combines used and discarded matter that explores the embedded history and latent qualities of objects.
Contemplating concepts like sustenance grown nearby and global dietary choices, students from the Ethics of Eating course turned local food into a feast for food columnist Mark Bittman.
Most Cornell employees eligible for either endowed or contract college health care coverage will do better financially by remaining on their employer plan rather than switching to plans covered by the federal Affordable Care Act.
A Cornell graduate student has created a free, open-source rendering program that is in use by computer graphics researchers around the world, using an algorithm that had stymied most programmers. (Oct. 8, 2012)