The New York Campus Compact - hosted by Cornell - has received $12,000 to support 100 part-time AmeriCorps community service positions on five New York college campuses. (Sept. 23, 2010)
As of March 28, the university had reached $752,772, or 92 percent, of its $815,000 goal. There is still time to make a difference in the lives of people in the local area by pledging to the campaign.
The Cornell Council for the Arts has announced the selection of fiction writer Andrew Boryga '13 as the Undergraduate Artist of the Year for 2012-13. A reading and award presentation is April 25.
Cornell University Police Officer Kevin Noterfonzo received the Kiwanis Ithaca-Cayuga Club's Frank G. Hammer Officer of the Month Award, March 19, for enhancing the Cornell Police K-9 Unit. (March 22, 2012)
Passionate about strengthening sustainability, battling climate change and improving a polluted world, Cornell students met Dec. 6 to begin forming an alliance of more than three dozen campus sustainability groups.
Associate professor of English Ernesto Quiñonez discussed authors using similar themes and characters in "The Fingerprints of Influence," a talk in the Creative Writing Program's "In A Word" series.
Events this week include a memorial celebration of Susan Christopherson's life and work, collegial collaborators Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon and Dagmawi Woubshet, and "Psycho" in Willard Straight Hall.
Active, immersive, hands-on, experiential learning is one of the best ways to recruit and retain students in STEM fields, and Cornell's Shoals Marine Laboratory has been doing it for 50 years.