Organized by Modesto Quiroga, Cornell’s Cosmopolitan Club first met Nov. 10, 1904, in Barnes Hall, with 60 students attending. For the next five decades, the Cosmopolitan Club fostered international awareness and elevated peaceful thoughts.
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.
Marianne Krasny, director of the Civic Ecology Lab and professor in the Department of Natural Resources, has been elected a foreign fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry.
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)
ILR School assistant professor Eli Friedman has been named to the Apple Inc. Academic Advisory Board, to advise the company on ethical working conditions for supply chain employees.
A Cornell researcher is trying to promote greater maple production in the Northeast; in New York, for example, less than 1 percent of the tappable trees are being used for maple syrup production. (Nov. 4, 2008)
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.
Cornell Tech researchers developed a tool that causes smartphones to vibrate when users exceed time limits on certain apps, reducing usage of the apps by 20 percent and helping people tackle digital addiction.