Cornell has achieved a gold rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education for its work as a 'green' leader. (Jan. 31, 2012)
D. Merrill Ewert, a faculty member in the Department of Education, has been named director of Cornell Cooperative Extension by the deans of the College of Human Ecology and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
The Human Ecology Alumni Association of Cornell has announced that Grace Richardson of New York City is the winner of the 1998 Helen Bull Vandervort Alumni Achievement Award for outstanding professional and volunteer services.
Cornell Lunatic founder Joey Green '80 returned to campus April 1 to mark the humor magazine's 30th anniversary and to launch the book he edited, 'Lunacy: The Best of the Cornell Lunatic.' (April 3, 2008)
The Cornell Research Foundation Inc., which puts much of Cornell University research to commercial use, has a new president. He is James A. Severson, previously a marketing director at the University of Minnesota.
A partnership with SRI-Rice at Cornell and a local organization has made crop cultivation methodology available to farmers in Mali despite the outbreak of war.
Two disease-causing microorganisms, Cryptosporidium and Giardia, are the targets of an intensive campaign by researchers at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine.