Sabre, a rescued black Labrador retriever who served as Cornell's first police dog and helped safeguard such notables as former President Bill Clinton and the Dalai Lama, died Jan. 5 at age 12. (Jan. 10, 2012)
ILR School Dean Harry Katz and Professor Rose Batt were named Scholar Fellows Jan. 7 by the Labor and Employment Relations Association. Another ILR faculty member and two alumni were also honored. (Jan. 10, 2012)
Susan Henry, professor and former dean of Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been awarded the highest honor bestowed by the New York State Agricultural Society. (Jan. 9, 2012)
Soumitra Dutta, a professor of business and technology and founder and faculty director of a new-media and technology innovation lab at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, will become the 11th dean of Johnson July 1. (Jan. 9, 2012)
El Salvador and Guatemala join 84 other countries that now have access to The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library project, run out of Cornell's Mann Library. (Jan. 9, 2012)
Cornell President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes has been named the first trustee emeritus of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. He was instrumental in the founding of that university. (Jan. 9, 2012)
The Cornell Center for Advanced Computing has received a High-Performance Computing Innovation Excellence Award for crunching hepatitis C virus data on its experimental MATLAB computing resource. (Jan. 9, 2012)
Cornell plant pathologists are warning New York apple and pear growers after discovering that a strain of fire blight is resistant to traditional treatments. (Jan. 6, 2012)