So that future generations can enjoy New York's forests for the trees, Cornell University's Department of Natural Resources has received a $179,204 grant from the U.S. Forest Service to teach sustainable land stewardship to the state's small-forest owners. Cornell's Forestry Extension program will coordinate its program activities with the Division of Lands and Forests, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The money for the first year is contained in the Forest Land Enhancement Program (FLEP) in the federal 2002 Farm Bill, which appropriated $100 million, $645,000 of which went to New York. (October 09, 2003)
Sanford I. Weill, chairman of the Board of Overseers of the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell, and Dr. Antonio M. Gotto Jr., dean of the Medical College, announced today that the school will launch a second Challenge Match to help complete its $750 million capital campaign.
Kathleen Foley has received a 2006 Trustees' Merit Citation from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and Misty Urban won a first prize for fiction in the 21st annual New Letters Awards for Writers contest.
Joseph H. Holland ’78, M.A. ’79, a Harlem-based lawyer, minister and activist, said that a religious revival on a scale seen previously in the U.S. may solve racial injustice on campus Oct. 23.
As Cornell's Presidential Search Committee members continue to seek input from various groups and individuals, several themes have emerged pertaining to the search.
The University Assembly wants to eliminate a clause in its charter that requires 20 percent of each of its constituencies to vote each time they want to change the charter. (April 7, 2010)
Entrepreneurship@Cornell's 2010 Celebration event, April 15-16, features symposiums, networking events, an expo and events honoring the 2010 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year.
How can communication between physicians and their elderly patients be improved? How can community service agencies better help families with depressed older relatives? How can psychotherapy and physical therapy be united to help older adults suffering simultaneously from back pain and depression? A new center at Cornell University will address these kinds of problems with innovative applied research projects. The Cornell Institute for Translational Research on Aging (CITRA) is funded with $1.9 million from the National Institute of Aging (NIA), one of four Edward R. Roybal Centers funded nationwide this year. A collaboration of the fields of social science, clinical research and mental health, the institute embraces social scientists from Cornell's Ithaca campus, research clinicians in geriatric medicine at the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in Manhattan, and researchers at the Psychiatric Division of the Cornell Institute for Geriatric Psychiatry in Westchester County, N.Y. (December 5, 2003)
Peter M. Salino, operations manager in the Grounds Department within the Facilities Services unit of Cornell, is the new director of that department, succeeding Dennis Osika, who has retired. (Jan. 21, 2009)