Design professor Jack Elliott has created an award-winning pendant lamp that uses its own aluminum waste shavings, or swarf, as the diffuser, embodying the 'green' principles of reducing, reusing and recycling. (May 16, 2007)
Ithaca residents and Cornell students, faculty and staff gathered March 2 to talk about options for barriers to enhance the safety of seven bridges on and near the Cornell campus. (March 3, 2011)
An ostentatious intruder ran afoul of authorities after a broken window was discovered on the south side of Rand Hall on June 6.
A peacock -- an escapee from a Cayuga Heights estate -- broke into the building around 5 p.m. and…
Provost Biddy Martin today (April 25, 2001) issued a statement concerning Cornell's plans for the renovation and improvement of its Africana Studies and Research Center.
Cornell President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes has just published "Earth: A Tenant's Manual," a book exploring planet Earth, from its place in the universe to the evolution of life on its land and in its seas.
Cornell has announced that it will answer the call issued by Mayor Michael Bloomberg July 19 to create a world-class applied science and engineering campus in the city.
The Institute for the Social Sciences has kicked off its Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility theme project, a three-year effort to understand the causes and solutions to chronic poverty. (May 6, 2009)
At the second of six forums held by the University Assembly to seek input from the Cornell community about transportation, parking and sustainability issues on Dec. 1, four panelists fielded questions from about 25 faculty, staff and students in Kaufmann Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. (December 07, 2005)
Cornell's Solar Decathlon house - a full-scale home that uses only the sun's energy - has arrived in Washington, D.C., in time for the Department of Energy's solar house contest on the National Mall, Oct. 7 to 14.