Cornell has been named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, With Distinction for its commitment to service learning and civic engagement. (March 15, 2012)
Master's student Katie Nelson surveyed Ethiopian farmers about highly sought-after traits in new wheat varieties in an attempt to quantify wheat-breeding priorities of specific populations. (March 15, 2012)
Candace Mingins '70, Hasbrouck's youth and family coordinator for the past 14 years, helps Hasbrouck Apartment residents from 47 countries form a community. (March 15, 2012)
Janet Spencer King '64, who has lived on Roosevelt Island in New York City since 1981, describes the island's changes over the years and cheers the coming of CornellNYC Tech campus. (March 15, 2012)
Events on campus the next two weeks include talks on library services students want, writings by African AIDS orphans, and Victorian literature; and John Waters at the 'Resoundingly Queer' conference. (March 15, 2012)
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly. (March 15, 2012)
The star attraction at Dragon Day 2012, March 16 on the Cornell campus, will reflect traditions of East and West - the Chinese Year of the Dragon meeting a Mayan motif. (March 15, 2012)
At an Inside Cornell media event March 13 in Manhattan, Professor Valerie Reyna said that teens take dangerous risks but a new program is teaching teens to take a different point of view. (March 15, 2012)
'Frontiers in the Life Sciences - a Symposium Celebrating Excellence' will bring eight elite female life scientists to campus for lectures, mentoring, networking and discussions April 2-3. (March 15, 2012)
On Pi Day at Cornell, the mathematical constant Pi was celebrated simultaneously with its round, baked edible homonym as faculty and students participated in a pie-eating contest. (March 15, 2012)