The Cornell DREAM (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act) Team are this year's winners of the James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony.
On May 15 Cornell's Joe Veverka led a team of astronomers and engineers in a final pitch for the mission that would use the still-healthy Stardust spacecraft to visit the comet Tempel 1 two years after Deep Impact. (May 23, 2007)
A new book gives parents advice on loosening the so-called electronic umbilical cord to their college-age children, along with tips for such common challenges as the freshman 15 and roommate problems. (June 27, 2011)
Hurricane Katrina promises to bring winds -- and rains -- of change to much of New York State early this week. The storm should help convert one of central New York's driest months on record.
Engineering students from across New York will visit campus April 13 and 14 for the Upstate New York American Society of Civil Engineers Student Conference. (March 29, 2007)
Nearly 120 people took part in a Dining with Diverse Minds dinner and discussion Oct. 23, during which students, faculty and administrators shared personal experiences with mental health issues.
Weill Cornell Medical College researcher Scott Blanchard received the Career Award from the National Science Foundation for his groundbreaking work in cell biology. (Sept. 17, 2008)
Cornell President David Skorton congratulates the staff and academic leadership of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for its sixth-place ranking in the U.S. News and World Report 'America's Best Hospitals' survey.
People lie on surveys to boast about themselves or to avoid embarrassment, among other reasons, but there was no evidence of the so-called 'Bradley effect' in the November presidential election. (Jan. 27, 2009)