Some 300 students delivered energy saving bags of treats to 5,000 Tompkins County households, while 900 others worked at nonprofit and public organizations, all as part of Into the Streets. (Nov. 3, 2010)
Collaborative research by scientists at Cornell in Ithaca and at Weill Cornell Medical College has yielded new clues into what happens when a Parkinson's disease-associated protein behaves badly. (Nov. 2, 2010)
Over the next decade, Cornell will lose an unprecedented number of its distinguished senior scholars to retirement, and must begin 'prehiring' replacements, two deans said at an Oct. 29 forum. (Nov. 2, 2010)
Fiction writers Lydia Peelle '00 and Rattawut Lapcharoensap '01 are winners of 2010 Whiting Writers' Awards, a prestigious $50,000 award given to up-and-coming writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. (Nov. 2, 2010)
Biology major Sarasi Jayaratne '12 is founder and executive director of the Keep Reading Foundation, which has shipped 15,000 children's books to 48 schools in rural Sri Lanka. (Nov. 2, 2010)
Several dozen Cornellians lent a hand to help others as volunteers at various events at non-profit organizations in the New York City area Oct. 30 as part of Cornell Cares Day. (Nov. 2, 2010)
The fall's Townsend Visiting Professor Raffaella Cribiore spent a week on campus Oct. 15-22 lecturing about the ancient rhetoric teacher Libanius and ancient education. (Nov. 2, 2010)
After 15 students briefly pitched their business ideas to a panel, the judges and audience chose three winners Oct. 27 for their viability and uniqueness. (Nov. 1, 2010)
A visiting Humanities Lecture series speaker used the history of the Soviet Union as a case in point that Islam is much better understood in the context of history. (Nov. 1, 2010)