Cornell University Police will operate a sobriety checkpoint on campus this weekend after one of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) playoff hockey games. Drivers can find out in advance where the checkpoint will be by going to the department's web site after noon Friday, March 8, and checking out the section called "Drink and drive. You lose." (March 6, 2002)
The phrase for spring 1997: Way cool! Mt. Washington, N.H., had its old monthly snowfall record crushed for May by a whopping 43.6 inches, beating the old record of 52.2 inches 30 years ago.
World Food Prize laureate and Cornell professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen's course takes a social entrepreneurial approach to world food policy, and he is training educators worldwide on how to the use materials to run participatory courses. (Feb. 6, 2008)
The National Science Foundation has awarded Cornell University $1.5 million for a new facility for research on multiscale problems in materials science and molecular biology.
Three Cornell graduate students are among 17 at seven American universities to receive grants as Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research. o Heidi E. Gjertsen, a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Applied Economics and Management, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
In a lecture on campus Nov. 6, the Smithsonian's Steven Monfort discussed preservation efforts to save species and predicted more collaborations with Cornell scientists.
Court TV's chief anchor and former CBS News legal correspondent Fred Graham will be the guest speaker at the Cornell Law School's alumni reunion dinner Saturday, June 6.
Christopher Ting Fung Dennis, 22, a Cornell senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and native of Ithaca, has been missing since the morning of Wednesday, May 22.