Events this week include Union Days, The Alloy Orchestra at Cornell Cinema, Sitara Night, a Science Cabaret on the mechanics of bicycles, pianist Jeremy Denk, and the domestic violence documentary "Home Truth."
The NYS Integrated Pest Management program has been cut from the proposed New York budget. Yet it saves farmers millions of dollars and keeps New Yorkers safer and healthier, says a Cornell expert.
A herpetologist and a political scientist have won Luce scholarships to study in Asia for a year. The Luce Scholars Program began in 1974 to increase awareness of Asia among future leaders. (March 10, 2011)
The Starr Foundation, chaired by Maurice R. Greenberg, has committed $6 million to the College of Veterinary Medicine. The gift will create two endowed professorships in clinical research.
The New York State Department of Corrections has given Cornell Dairy a 4,200-gallon tanker truck that can carry almost twice the milk and use half the fuel as as the dairy's current 25-year-old truck. (June 23, 2009)
President Pollack and more than 1,000 alumni gathered Nov. 18 at Washington, D.C.'s National Museum of African American History to celebrate Cornell’s founding principles of inclusion and diversity.
Cornell's public engagement mission was showcased March 12 to about 225 Bay-Area alumni, parents and friends. Also in March, Cornellians hosted an event at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.
Cellist Gerald Appleman presented one of the cellos he made to Cornell's Department of Music Sept. 2, in appreciation of Scott Tucker, director of choral music. (Sept. 7, 2010)
The Ithaca campus has received 121 ARRA research awards, totaling $99,671,305, and Weill Cornell Medical College has received 63 awards totaling $21, 997,971, creating and retaining nearly 200 jobs. (Oct. 21, 2009)