The Mars rover Opportunity is a senior citizen but still spry, and as it peers over the rim of the giant impact crater called Endeavour, it's embarking on what could be called a new mission. (Sept. 2, 2011)
Cornell is in the planning stages of upgrading and expanding the Gannett Health Services facility – to 96,000 square feet, up from 38,000 – by 2017. In July, Cornell Board of Trustees Chair Robert S. Harrison ’76 and his wife, Jane, made a lead gift of $5 million in support of the $55 million project.
Researchers with funding from the National Institutes of Health soon will be required to put copies of peer-reviewed publications in an online open-access repository. Cornell Library is offering help to comply with the new requirement. (March 17, 2008)
Less than a year after after publication, a technique - genotyping-by-sequencing - to analyze genetic information is taking off because the method is cheap and easy, and it generates terabytes of data. (March 19, 2012)
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly.
Janna Lamey has been named assistant dean of student life for the Graduate School, effective Oct. 8. She will develop activities and events in support of the graduate and professional student community. (Sept. 14, 2012)
Cornell landscape architecture seniors are working side by side with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to integrate ecology and engineering performance to protect Galveston Bay in Texas.
Gener, senior editor of American Theatre, is the winner of the 2007-08 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, an honor administered annually by Cornell's Department of English. (Feb. 4, 2009)
To help introduce new members of the university's faculty to the Cornell community, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles for the 2014-15 academic year.