For the next eight weeks, the university will seek to raise $10,000 a week in pledges to the United Way, announced University Librarian Anne Kenney, chair of the Cornell United Way campaign.
President Elizabeth Garrett formed the Senior Leaders Climate Action Group last November to focus on improving climate trends by spurring cross-disciplinary solutions on campus and globally.
New legislation signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on July 12 removes legal obstacles impeding access to hemp seed in a bid to streamline research and farming opportunities in New York.
The University Service of Remembrance and Thanskgiving, an annual service held in Sage Chapel during Reunion Weekend, remembers and honor classmates, colleauges and friends who have died in the past year.
The sixth annual Youth Development Research Update June 1-2 in Ithaca, funded by the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research in the College of Human Ecology, covered a lot of ground.
Biological engineer Jonathan Butcher won first place at Cornell's Third Annual Public Engagement and Science Communication Symposium, May 12 for clearly explaining his work on 3D X-rays. (May 13, 2009)
The Sustainable Energy Systems minor is being offered through the College of Engineering starting this academic year and is available to all undergraduates. (Feb. 1, 2011)
Residents of Piermont, New York are facing climate change, as Hudson River flooding begins to encroach their waterfront streets. Cornell students provided concepts at an open house on how to handle it.