Betsy Leonard '81 is the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station's new organic farm coordinator - doing everything from plowing to mentoring. (Sept. 16, 2011)
Alumnus Gordon Chang, a China expert, said China has entered into a period of economic decline and bad relations with its neighbors due to its expansionism and failure to reform. (Nov. 19, 2012)
U.S. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand and Cornell's Society for the Humanities hosted a daylong roundtable and workshop on campus May 17, on the arts and tourism aiding the upstate New York economy. (May 26, 2011)
Real estate developer and Cornell benefactor Paul Milstein died Aug. 8 at the age of 88. The new College of Architecture, Art and Planning building that bears his name will open in 2011. (Aug. 11, 2010)
The new Nanooze Lab at California's Disneyland allows guests to explore the very, very small. The Nanooze project was founded by Cornell Professor Carl Batt.
Cornell is taking the next steps in its streamlining process to rethink its administrative services. A new website and upcoming forums will provide updates on progress.
Scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and the USDA's Agricultural Research Service on campus have discovered that a set of chemical changes to a plant's DNA is key to tomato ripening.
Cornell is No. 14 among the world's universities in the 2018 QS World University Rankings, released June 7. That is two spots up from last year's ranking of No. 16. And it is up five rungs from its No. 19 ranking in 2015.
President Skorton welcomed the entire Cornell community back to campus in an e-mail message Aug. 25. In it, he detailed the university's priorities for the coming year. (Aug. 25, 2010)
InSitu@CHESS, a program begun in 2014 by engineering professor Matt Miller, offers a way for industry and other labs to test materials using the high-energy X-rays of Cornell's synchrotron source.