Planning students converged last month on one of New York City's underappreciated historic landmarks: Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, the site of the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Artist Peter Gerakaris, BFA '03, has created a tropically themed art installation at a community gallery on Roosevelt Island, commissioned to coincide with the Cornell Tech groundbreaking celebration.
Ponder sustainable fuels and think Rumpelstiltskin: Growers in New York state may one day turn craggy, rugged and lumpy marginal land – by growing grasses and shrubs – into a virtual, perennial fountain of liquid energy gold.
Cornell President David Skorton joined 165 university presidents and chancellors to call on leaders in Washington to close what they call the “innovation deficit.”
Khaleel Atiyyeh '10, Joanne Chickering '12 and Patricia Green '10 received 2009 Robert S. Smith Awards for Community Progress and Innovation to implement innovative community-building projects. (Dec. 3, 2009)
Robert Morgan, a poet, fiction writer and Cornell professor, discussed his Daniel Boone biography at the first Literary Luncheon, Sept. 25. Helena Maria Viarmontes will be the guest speaker Oct. 15. (Oct. 1, 2008)
Cornell professor Eswar Prasad has co-authored 'Emerging Markets, Global Financial Crisis, Global Economics' (Brookings Press, 2010), which analyzes the success of emerging market economies. (Dec. 6, 2010)
The ILR School, Weill Cornell Medical College and several domestic and international organizations will confer on health care reform in New York City May 11-12. (April 5, 2010)
To start their year, 65 freshman and transfer students, led by 15 leaders, volunteered in the community to get to know their new town and each other. (Aug. 15, 2012)
More than 1,700 Cornell employees and their families celebrated Valentine's Day at the Employee Celebration community dinner in the Ramin Room, Bartels Hall. (Feb. 19, 2009)