One man and a plate of cookies led to Cornell's inaugural Bartels Award to recognize the outstanding customer service performed by the custodial staff on campus. (Feb. 1, 2008)
You don't need to start with large sums of money to invest for retirement, and you don't have to be a pro. Resources abound on the Web sites of each of Cornell's vendors.
Cornell researchers have developed a quick, inexpensive way to detect rotavirus, the most common cause of severe diarrhea that kills a half million people a year, mostly infants and young children. (May 9, 2011)
Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, a magazine edited and published at Cornell, has received a $100,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. (March 26, 2007)
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca Thursday, May 27, through Saturday, May 29. The Executive Committee of the board will hold a brief open session at the start of its meeting Friday, May 28, at 7:30 a.m. in the Taylor A&B Room of the Statler Hotel on campus. The open session will include a discussion of the 2004-05 financial plan for the contract colleges. (May 24, 2004)
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, which administers the Fulbright program at Cornell, reports that a record 27 Cornellians have received awards in 2013-14.
Any day now, Brood X, the largest, most prolific brood of 17-year cicadas, will emerge from the ground and cut a swath across the Eastern seaboard. But many won't even make it to the surface: While the cicada nymphs have been developing into adults underground, their habitats have been paved over by parking lots, enormous shopping malls and large tracts of homes. (May 12, 2004)
Cornell University officials announced today (Jan. 4) that the university and the Cornell Research Foundation have filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, asserting that the Hewlett-Packard Company infringed, and continues to infringe, a patent issued in 1989 basically to protect a computer instruction processing technique created by Professor Emeritus H.C. Torng of Cornell's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The invention protected by the patent (U.S. patent No. 4,807,115) substantially accelerates a computer's processing speed. More specifically, the patent involves a technique for computer processors with multiple functional units that permits multiple instructions to be issued per machine cycle and out of program order, thereby substantially increasing the efficiency and speed of the processors. (January 4, 2002)
Cellist Adrianne Ngam, an architecture major, won the fifth annual Cornell Concerto Competition Dec. 14 in Barnes Hall. She will be featured in a March 1 concert with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra. (Dec. 18, 2008)
An accidental house fire in Collegetown in the early hours of May 6 claimed the life of Brian Lo, 21, a senior in the School of Hotel Administration from East Rockaway, N.Y. (May 6, 2011)