The director of a Cornell program that integrates life sciences into engineering education, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, has been awarded $999,000 by a New York state research-funding agency.
Steven Stucky's most commercially successful work to date is an arrangement of a piece written by a man who died 400 years ago -- Henry Purcell's "Funeral Music for Queen Mary."
Cornell is the best place in the nation to work for people over age 50, according to AARP, because of its commitment to staff and faculty, more than 40 percent of whom are age 50 or older. (Sept. 23, 2008)
The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise has launched a green revolving fund to enhance energy conservation efforts in campus buildings.
A new Cornell study published in a medical journal reports that the outcomes using minimally invasive robotic technology compare favorably with traditional invasive surgery for prostate cancer. (March 2, 2010)
A team of three Cornell students will be among 100 teams in the world finals of the 2009 Association of Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest in Stockholm, April 18-22. (April 9, 2009)
The Chordials, a student a cappella group, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a new CD and concert featuring current members and alumni performing side by side, April 14. (April 11, 2007)
The New York Space Grant Consortium has been awarded $99,421 by NASA in one-year funding to help train and prepare the space agency's future workforce.
Most of New York state's vertebrates, from amphibians and reptiles to birds and mammals, have less than 10 percent of their predicted population on state- and federal-protected lands, according to an eight-year study conducted by Cornell University's Department of Natural Resources. "That was a surprise," said Charles Smith, Cornell senior research associate in natural resources, who leads the New York state Gap Analysis Program (GAP), a federally funded, long-term effort to inventory land and water species. New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and the Cornell Institute for Resource Information Systems contributed to the report. "This tells me that our state agencies have an important management mission ahead of them, and we've got to enlist the public to help. We have to ask ourselves, how do we keep these animals around for future generations to enjoy?" (May 28, 2002)
High school students in Cornell's Upward Bound program, now in its third year, volunteered at Hospicare on July 22 and got in touch with nature, the concept of service and matters of life and death. (July 30, 2010)