A late-night entertainment venue in Willard Straight Hall's Ivy Room will open in spring 2012, according to the Student Assembly and the Office of the Dean of Students.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology provided audio and video recordings of birds to producers of the Hollywood comedy 'The Big Year,' starring actors Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson. (Oct. 12, 2011)
A landmark study finds that the vast majority of 65,000 living vertebrate species descended from a common ancestor that had a well-developed system for detecting electrical fields in the water. (Oct. 11, 2011)
Cornell librarian Janet McCue has co-written an 80-page biographical introduction to a classic outdoors text whose author had many Cornell ties. (Oct. 11, 2011)
From emergency evacuation notices to how many vegetables to eat, people need good information to make good choices. Professor Valerie Reyna explains that risk messages must be tailored to different age groups. (Oct. 11, 2011)
'Notice and Respond: Friend 2 Friend' is designed to help students to consider their role in Cornell's support network and offer ways they might respond when peers show signs of distress. (Oct. 11, 2011)
The final numbers are in: Cornell's long-term investments jumped for a second year in a row. The total value rose 19.9 percent to $5.35 billion. (Oct. 11, 2011)
Some 600 teachers in the Ithaca City School District attended the Resource and Networking Fair at Ithaca High School Oct. 7 to learn about Cornell resources they can use in their classrooms. (Oct. 11, 2011)
Collaboration among those with a stake in Cornell's information technology is going to be the key to streamlining it successfully, said project managers speaking at an Oct. 6 forum. (Oct. 11, 2011)
The new 89,000-square-foot Human Ecology Building debuts as a 'green' facility loaded with high-tech labs, studios, galleries and more. (Oct. 11, 2011)