About 50 incoming freshmen and transfer students came to campus a week early to volunteer in the community and meet new people. They are part of Cornell's Pre-Orientation Service Trip. (Aug. 20, 2008)
Among the many members of the extended Cornell community, trustees, alumni and friends who will be participating in the inauguration ceremonies for President David Skorton, four will play a particularly visible role. They are…
A plaster cast of the charioteer of Delphi in Goldwin Smith Hall has been restored, and a new piece was added to the cast collection: a Hellenistic sculpture of the head of a fisherman. (Sept. 27, 2010)
It took a humanist to lasso the talents of Cornell lawyers, engineers, development sociologists and others to teach a new graduate course, 'Water and Culture in the Mediterranean: a Crisis?' (March 13, 2007)
Events on campus include art exhibitions at the Johnson Museum and Mann Library, a Soup and Hope lecture in Sage Chapel, outdoor photography workshops and a veterinary medicine seminar.
National and state leaders from the National Corporation of Service and other government programs will join college and university presidents, staff and students from across New York state Oct. 16 to officially launch the New York Campus Compact (NYCC).
Design historian Jan Jennings new book, "Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings: Design Competitions and the Convenient Interior, 1879-1909" (University of Tennessee Press).
D. Tyler McQuade, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University, has won a $200,000 early career award from the New York State OfÞce of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR) for research that strives to create polymers that mimic biological materials. The award is one of 10, totaling $2 million, given by the research agency to scientists across the state who are performing their research in the life sciences, biomedical sciences or in other life science-enabling disciplines, such as materials science and chemistry. (October 18, 2002)