Events on campus during Orientation Week include the annual Dump and Run sale, free Cornell Cinema screenings and a block party for new students, and Cornell Plantations' annual Harder Lecture. (Aug. 18, 2011)
Cornell researchers are spending time in the fields this spring collecting 20,000 alfalfa snout beetles. They need them to test ways to biologically control the pests, which devour alfalfa and other crops.
Goldman Sachs has tapped Cornell President David Skorton to serve on an advisory council for their new $500 million, five-year initiative: 10,000 Small Businesses. (Nov. 18, 2009)
A Charter Day Weekend panel discussion explored how technological shifts, and changes in how audiences consume information, have affected the worlds of media and journalism.
Denise Morrison, president and CEO of Campbell Soup Co., visited Cornell May 4 with a message for female food scientists: You too can be leaders in the food systems industry.
Events on campus this week include new exhibitions at the Johnson Museum, 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' in Sage Chapel, best-selling novelist Gary Shteyngart and a book talk on calories and politics. (Aug. 30, 2012)
Cornell will receive $40 million from the U.K.'s Department for International Development and the Gates Foundation to fight a wheat pathogen that threatens the world's food security. (Feb. 27, 2011)