Cornell announces a sweeping new financial aid initiative, starting next year, to eliminate need-based loans for all undergraduate students from families with income under $75,000, making it possible for new students to graduate debt-free. (Jan. 31, 2008)
Thomas Pepinsky, assistant professor of government, won the American Political Science Association's 2010 Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award. (Aug. 6, 2010)
A grass-pellet stove has been installed in the fireplace of Cornell's Big Red Barn -- the first public demonstration of such technology in New York state. (March 6, 2007)
Ricky Panzer '13 and Alex Friedman '13 have launched a nonprofit organization called Signature Donations, and their first project was to purchase shoes for orphans in Zambia. (Sept. 9, 2010)
Pulling out from the Battery Maritime Building in downtown Manhattan, the ferry to Governors Island rose and fell on the waves with 24 inner-city teenagers on board, while an orange Staten Island Ferry lumbered toward the Statue…
Cornell researchers have discovered key properties in coronaviruses that help explain how such viruses as SARS invade their hosts and cross species barriers.