Four grants awarded from the Summer 2009 Seed Grant Competition are intended to promote research on foreign policy and international development as well as international studies in general. (Dec. 16, 2009)
InSitu@CHESS, a program begun in 2014 by engineering professor Matt Miller, offers a way for industry and other labs to test materials using the high-energy X-rays of Cornell's synchrotron source.
Cornell will return to a 'healthy pace' of faculty hiring by 2015, said President David Skorton in the State of the University address Oct. 23. He also emphasized that the path to Cornell's future leads out of its past.
Cornell faculty, staff and graduate students taught 380 middle- and high-school students in hands-on workshops at the annual 4-H Career Explorations conference June 28-30 on campus.
Cornell researchers will travel to Paris as part of the university's delegation to the global climate change summit, COP21. Delegations from over 190 countries and more than 50,000 people will attend.
Students Kelley McElfresh ’16, Devin Hegelein ’17 and Katie Kraft ’17 are making substantial contributions to sales and manufacturing at Ithaca Hummus in Groton, New York.
On Nov. 8, two fraternities, Plantations Natural Areas Program, Cornell Outdoor Education, and Fraternity and Sorority Affairs partnered to haul trash out of Cascadilla Gorge. (Nov. 10, 2008)
The Corporation for National and Community Service has named Cornell to the 2010 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. (May 19, 2011)
Homemade wind turbines dotted the Ithaca Children's Garden at Cass Park April 22 for the final judging of the 'Catch the Breeze Wind Turbine Challenge' competition. (April 26, 2012)
Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility is partnering with a statewide educational and research powerhouse to solve the problem of design-for-manufacturing.