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)
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 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)
Cornell architects have revised designs for the tensile steel mesh net systems the university has proposed to install on seven area bridges. (Oct. 3, 2011)
Former Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman '77, dean of the School of Transnational Law at Peking University, was one of 50 people to receive the People's Republic of China Friendship Award. (Oct. 3, 2011)
Highlights of the fall 2011 Employee Celebration include a Big Red win over Wagner and a chicken barbecue and pasta dinner at Barton Hall. (Oct. 3, 2011)
After three decades of being lost, the nine-spotted ladybug, New York's official insect, has finally been found in New York state - rediscovered first by a citizen scientist on Long Island July 30. (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)