Veteran hiker William 'Corky' Lowe says he owes his life to a group of Outdoor Odyssey students and guides from Cornell who helped rescue him in Vermont's Green Mountains last week.
Style Engineers, an NSF-funded program to engage girls with STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) topics, is being distributed to educators nationwide following successful testing.
Earlier this year, the Cornell University Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic (CU-PDDC) used a new rapid test they developed to identify a small number of oak trees with oak wilt disease on Long Island.
The Cornell Student Experience Initiative aims to connect students with thousands of opportunities beyond the classroom. A new website will help them easily find programs for international study, research, fellowships, community-engaged classes and more.
An early morning fire on the 400 block of Stewart Avenue in Ithaca displaced 44 Cornell students and two staff members. No injuries were reported in connection with the incident. The fire is under investigation.
This fall, freshmen and new transfer students will read the classic Kurt Vonnegut Jr. '44 novel "Slaughterhouse-Five," the 2015 choice for the New Student Reading Project.
Suzanne Mettler, Cornell's Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions, has been appointed a fellow by The Century Foundation, a progressive nonpartisan think tank. (Jan. 18, 2012)
The current and former directors of Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva were honored by Hobart and William Smith Colleges. (May 18, 2011)