Cornell had its highest number of applications in university history for freshman admission this year, with 44,966 applicants for the Class of 2020. Students were notified of their selection status March 31 at 5 p.m.
Hakim Weatherspoon of computer science has received a National Science Foundation Early Career Award. The research aims to fix glitches in supposedly perfect private fiber-optic networks. (Oct. 3, 2011)
Starting in the spring, Cornell will move student e-mail service to outside vendors and convert faculty and staff e-mail to the Microsoft Exchange system. (Dec. 10, 2008)
The Cassini spacecraft is giving astronomers a wealth of new information about Saturn and its ring system. It's also tossing in some surprises and questions along the way.
It's not a shortage of fuel that is pushing the price of gas toward $3 per gallon again in New York, but U.S. public policy, said John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil, speaking on campus April 11. (April 17, 2007)
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold its first meetings of 2005 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, Jan. 21 and 22. (January 18, 2005)
Events this week include: Temple Grandin; Johnson Museum events; lectures on digital privacy and foreign policy; a poetry reading; a Gallic band performance; and a Schumann recital. (Feb. 18, 2010)
Two Cornell undergraduate students have been recognized by the New York State Assembly as 2005 New York State Assembly Distinguished Interns, after participating in the university's Capital Semester program in Albany this spring.