When galaxies collide (as our galaxy, the Milky Way, eventually will with the nearby Andromeda galaxy), what happens to matter that gets spun off in the collision's wake? With help from the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared spectrograph, Cornell astronomers are beginning to piece together an answer to that question. (November 30, 2005)
New amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act restore the act's original intent, writes the ILR School's Wendy Strobel in a Cornell Perspectives piece. (Aug. 12, 2010)
Malika Grayson and Darvin J. Griffin have received the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Mike Shinn Distinguished Member of the Year award - one of the organization's highest honors for graduate students.
Cornell professors George Hudler, Ravi Ramakrishna and Yervant Terzian have been recognized for distinguished teaching with Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships. (Jan. 26, 2012)
More and more students -- 32,655 as of Jan. 14 -- want to come to Cornell. That is 7.5 percent more than last year, and a whopping 57 percent increase since 2004, reports Associate Provost Doris Davis. (Jan. 15, 2008)
Mark Barlow, E.D.D. '62, who was vice president for student affairs at Cornell during the 1969 takeover of the student union, died of cancer June 23 at the age of 87 in Hanover, N.H. (July 2, 2012)
Faculty, students and staff gathered March 12 to discuss the recent acts of heritage destruction in northern Iraq by Islamic State group and what, if any, response would be appropriate.
More than 100 people gathered May 14 and 15 for a symposium, 'Galaxies: not WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get),' celebrating Haynes' 60th birthday. (May 17, 2011)
Cornell University's Department of Food Science has announced that Crowley Foods, Albany, and Upstate Farms Cooperative, Rochester, have tied as the producers of the highest quality milk in New York state for 2002. The selection is part of the New York State Milk Quality Improvement Program and is sponsored by the New York Milk Promotion Order. The analytical tests are run at Cornell. (August 26, 2002)
David M. Lodge, the Galla Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the first Francis J. DiSalvo Director of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, effective in May 2016.