Despite a year of unprecedented uncertainty and complexity, Cornell remains a 'beacon of hope,' said President David J. Skorton in his State of the University address June 6 in Bailey Hall. (June 6, 2009)
Susan McCouch, professor of plant breeding and genetics at Cornell, works with Ithaca-area high schools to create a hands-on laboratory experience that also meets New York's educational standards for the Living Environment curriculum.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will establish a national gene data research center, the Center for Bioinformatics and Comparative Genomics, at Cornell. Judy St. John, an associate deputy administrator with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service, made the announcement Jan. 17 in San Diego at the Plant and Animal Genome VII Conference.
Peter Neufeld, co-author of Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted (Doubleday, 2000) and an outspoken advocate for the rights of the wrongly accused, will speak at Cornell University Law School.
Dr. Konstantin Frank Vinifera Wine Cellars and the Frank family have donated a book collection comprising 137 19th- and 20th-century titles on wine and grape-related topics to the Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y. (Feb. 6, 2008)
Malicious individuals can use stolen NetIDs and passwords to send mail, hijack Cornell servers and log into or disrupt other services, including some that hold sensitive information. (Oct. 28, 2009)
Cornell University Library is partnering with Google Inc. to digitize materials from the library's collections and make them available online through Google Book Search. (Aug. 8, 2007)
Robert F. Engle, M.S. ’66, Ph.D. ‘69, who won the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, spoke on campus Oct. 24 about economics models that can stave off another financial crisis.
Feminist author and editor Susie Bright delivered her Sexual State of the Union Jan. 23, in which she advocated that parents let their children be themselves.
"I've never done one particular track, and I've always followed whatever I love and loved whatever I've done," said Cornell University Dean of Human Ecology Lisa Staiano-Coico at an April 5 panel discussion, "Women in Medicine…