A group of Cornell students are working day and night to get their full-size, fuel-efficient, plug-in hybrid vehicle ready for on-road testing Sept. 1 in preparation for the Automotive X Prize Competition. (July 29, 2009)
A peaceful political resolution to the civil war in Nepal should boost enrollment in the Cornell-Nepal Study Program, Cornell Abroad's only campus-administered program. (May 13, 2008)
Track coach Kevin Thompson also directs a nonprofit organization that he founded, which recently took several Cornell athletes and computers to Olympic runner Kip Keino and his schools in Kenya.
City and regional planning students surveyed New Orleans' 9th Ward in March and looked at sustainable options for rebuilding the neighborhood as part of an ongoing Cornell planning initiative. (May 8, 2008)
Paul Ginsparg, Cornell professor of physics and information science, Cornell Ph.D. in physics (1981) and a pioneer in Internet scientific communications, has been named winner of the Paul Evan Peters Award from the Coalition for…
Sage Chapel has launched a new series of programs aimed at letting the Cornell and Ithaca communities know there's a peaceful place on campus to visit that's open to all faiths. (Aug. 23, 2007)
The charter of Cornell University includes a remarkable statement: "And persons of every religious denomination, or of no religious denomination, shall be equally eligible to all offices and appointments."
Ratan Tata '59, chairman of India's Tata Group, presented the new $2,500 Nano minicar and addressed 'Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century' with President David Skorton June 5. (June 6, 2009)
Would you travel halfway around the world to talk about Wittgenstein? Many graduate students and professors do just that. The famed philosopher's work in logic and language is among the studies tackled each summer by participants in the School of Criticism and Theory (SCT) at Cornell.
Artists, educators and authors will gather on the Cornell next month for a public symposium to discuss the teaching of creativity and the presence and import of the arts and artistic intelligence across the disciplines of the university.