Visiting Scholar Afrika Bambaataa spoke about his storied career as well as the culture, dance and ideology that led to the evolution of hip-hop on campus Nov. 27. (Nov. 29, 2012)
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has announced $42 million in gifts to Cornell - $40 million to the teaching hospital of Weill Cornell Medical College and $2 million to the Hotel School. (May 6, 2009)
The grant will help repair damage to Cascadilla Gorge trail caused by flooding in fall 2011 and restore the trail to its historic appearance, as it looked when it was built in the 1920s and 1930s. (Nov. 28, 2012)
Two years ago, the viburnum leaf beetle, a pest with an appetite for certain ornamental bushes, was found in upstate New York along the Lake Ontario shore. Since then it has been chewing its way steadily south.
Cornell has received an $890,940 interest-free loan from New York state to help refurbish and replace lighting with energy-efficient bulbs and fixtures across campus.
"Wearable" headphones and ear pads, dresses designed with the idea that "decoration may be transmittable," much like microbial infection, and a shoe design based on sea urchin shells are just three of the nine wearable art pieces…
A few hundred more generators are needed to help dairy farmers in northern New York in the wake of the recent ice storm, Cornell Cooperative Extension officials say. "Helping dairy farms is a top priority," said Edward Harwood of Cornell Cooperative Extension in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
In a decision dated March 23, 1998, New York State Supreme Court Justice Phillip R. Rumsey dismissed remaining claims in a lawsuit brought by Professor James Maas against Cornell.
Bonnie McEneaney, MPS '78, shared the experiences of friends and family of 9/11 victims in a Sept. 16 reading from her book 'Messages: Signs, Visits, and Premonitions From Loved Ones Lost on 9/11.' (Sept. 21, 2010)
Physician, researcher and Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar interim dean Javaid I. Sheikh has been appointed dean of the college, effective Jan. 1.