Vijay Pendakur, associate vice president for the Division of Student Affairs at California State University, Fullerton, has been named Cornell's next dean of students. He will assume the post Jan. 3, 2017.
To open a new building by cutting a ribbon with scissors is so last millennium. Instead, the Sciencenter of Ithaca will use people power to melt a wire to officially open its new building Friday, Feb. 28. The ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m. at the museum, located at 601 First St.
Bad Religion punk rocker Greg Graffin, Ph.D. '03, is co-teaching a course on evolution this semester for non-biology majors; he will do so for at least three years. (Nov. 30, 2011)
"Be it known that I, EZRA CORNELL, of Ithaca, in the county of Tompkins and state of New York, have invented a new and useful Machine or Implement for Laying Metallic Pipes in the Earth, which I denominate 'Cornell's Improved…
The controversial and contradictory Daniel Cohn-Bendit delivered his signature blend of paradoxical rhetoric to a Cornell audience Nov. 11. (November 15, 2005)
For the past decade, high school physics teachers from New York state and beyond have been the eager consumers of a Cornell-based outreach program designed to make physics engaging and accessible. (Nov. 29, 2011)
Cornell University's Kids Growing Food program is accepting 2004 garden grant applications from elementary and secondary schoolteachers in New York state. The grants will help teachers establish or maintain a food garden on school grounds. The application deadline is Dec. 8, 2003. Kids Growing Food is the hands-on component of the New York Ag in the Classroom program. Its purpose is to teach students to understand how food grows by providing them with gardening experience at school. (October 31, 2003)
Cornell researchers have identified a type of immune system cell that prevents a patient’s body from attacking donor cells after a bone marrow transplant.
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. (Nov. 29, 2012)
Two new courses for food science and undergraduate business majors teach leadership and team-building skills with help from Cornell's Team and Leadership Center. (March 4, 2008)