Cornell has exceeded its largest campaign goal ever - $790,000, presenting a check for $792,637 to James Brown, president of the United Way of Tompkins County, at the men's basketball game Feb. 12. (Feb. 15, 2011)
Americans could dramatically cut down on their energy use by changing their eating habits and farming in more traditional ways, says a new Cornell study. (Aug. 11, 2008)
Graduate students at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station raise scholarship money for local students interested in agriculture through sales of apple cider. (Nov. 7, 2012)
Jonathan Culler, the Class of 1916 Professor of English and a prominent scholar of literary theory, will be honored by returning students at a conference Oct. 3-4 for his 70th birthday.
The records of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay-rights organization, were unveiled at a Feb. 8 reception at Kroch Library. (Feb. 13, 2007)
In a new venture in Africa, Cornell will support a new doctoral program at the University of Ghana to train African plant breeders to tackle issues related to crops vital to Africans' diet. (Sept. 19, 2007)
It looks like March will be going out like a lamb -- a very dry lamb -- at least for the coastal Northeast. Many cities along the Eastern seaboard -- including New York, Boston, Baltimore, Atlantic City and Washington, D.C. --…
Events on campus this week include: a walking contest, Emerging Artists, former Brazilian president, poet Paul Muldoon, Union Days, museum reception, urban agenda, Glissant and sustainability month.
Cornell University Police were presented with a statewide award for promoting traffic safety Oct. 18 at the New York Highway Safety Conference held in Binghamton, N.Y. Sgt. Chuck Howard, traffic enforcement coordinator, accepted the Governor's Traffic Safety Committee award on behalf of the department from Raymond P. Martinez, commissioner of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, who chairs the committee. (November 4, 2004)