Two faculty members - and one of their dads - have joined forces to publish 'The Complete Potato Grower's Guide: What Every Grower and Gardener Needs to Know.' One of the authors will give a talk Oct. 13. (Oct. 5, 2011)
A new student group, SWAG (Scholars Working Ambitiously to Graduate), formed a peer-mentoring program to address low graduation rates of Cornell's African-American male students. (Oct. 5, 2011)
An open house will celebrate the opening of two diversity units - the Cornell Intercultural Center and the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives - and recognize three new diversity leaders.
CAUSE, a Cornell program in New York City, prepares low-income, minority high schools students with college-readiness science skills. On Sept. 27, the students presented their research projects. (Oct. 4, 2011)
Academic leaders have announced the creation of the new Center for Community Engaged Learning and Research and have named Richard Kiely as its director. (Oct. 3, 2011)
Hakim Weatherspoon of computer science has received a National Science Foundation Early Career Award. The research aims to fix glitches in supposedly perfect private fiber-optic networks. (Oct. 3, 2011)
By spring 2013, the Cornell Big Red Bands hope to have a home of their own - a new 6,400-square-foot facility behind the Schoellkopf Crescent. Groundbreaking is expected to occur in 2012. (Oct. 3, 2011)
Cornell Board of Trustees Chairman Peter Meinig '61 and wife Nancy '62 together will lead the university's efforts to celebrate its 150th anniversary, in 2015. (Oct. 3, 2011)
Cornell University's endowment is holding steady despite the current volatility in the equity markets, according to A.J. Edwards, Cornell's interim chief investment officer. (Oct. 3, 2011)