At the annual BOOM (Bits on Our Minds) showcase April 24 in Duffield Hall, more than 200 students used technology to try to solve problems large and small, local and international, for entertainment, convenience, increased equity or social good.
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.
Gregory Poe, professor of applied economics and management, died unexpectedly March 11 at his home in Ithaca. His work focused on applied welfare economics, nonmarket valuation, experimental economics and water pollution policy.
Five students working with community partners on projects to strengthen the local community were honored with Robert S. Smith Awards for Community Progress and Innovation to carry out their proposals.
After more than a decade of planning, NASA's SOFIA airborne observatory completed its first three science flights Nov. 30, Dec. 3 and Dec. 7, carrying the Cornell-built FORCAST infrared camera. (Dec. 9, 2010)
Six alumni and two faculty members of Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences were honored at a dinner Nov. 16 in the Statler Hotel. Nearly 230 alumni, faculty and staff of the college attended the banquet. (Nov. 26, 2007)
Cornell researchers have discovered a biological mechanism that helps convert nitrogen-based fertilizer into nitrous oxide, an ozone-depleting greenhouse gas.
Fredrik Logevall, the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, will succeed Alice Pell, effective July 1.