Maria Cristina Garcia and alumnae Renee Alexander '74, Mary Berens '74 and Kristen Rupert '74 were elected honorary members of Sphinx Head recently for service to Cornell. (May 4, 2010)
Assistant professor Dmitry Savransky '04, M.Eng. '05, has advanced in the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program with his idea for a large, self-assembling space telescope.
Although the Cornell Dairy Bar has closed for several years while Stocking Hall is renovated, Cornell ice cream and other dairy products are now available at Trillium Express. (Aug. 26, 2010)
Cornell students affiliated with the Immigrant Farmworker Initiative visit farms to teach these workers English. They also work on campus to raise awareness about farmworker issues.
Breaking Bread, an initiative that brings together different communities, identities, groups and organizations for dinner and facilitated discussions, received the James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony.
A Cornell-led international research team has secured funding from the Human Frontier Science Program for a three-year study into the connection between breast cancer and bone mineralization.
In putting together Cornell's New Life Sciences Initiative, the university has just announced its cornerstone piece for the restructuring of the life sciences on campus -- the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology.
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Students off campus who call for help in alcohol-related emergencies will receive amnesty for certain infractions. A community meeting will be held April 23 to discuss student safety and the good Samaritan law. (April 19, 2012)
A course developed by Angela Gonzales, associate professor of development sociology, connects her 15 students with nonprofit organizations on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona, to work collaboratively on projects that address community needs.