In a campus seminar April 15, Steven E. Koonin, undersecretary of energy for science in the U.S. Department of Energy, said that sustainability is mostly about managing resource imbalances. (April 20, 2010)
The work of Samuel Bacharach and the ILR School's R. Brinkley Smithers Institute for Alcohol-Related Workplace Studies will be highlighted in the HBO series 'Addiction,' premiering March 15 at 9 p.m. (March 13, 2007)
About 60 people rallied Dec. 3 to oppose the decision to have Africana Studies report to the College of Arts and Sciences, and letters of protest were delivered to the president and provost.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- David J. Gibson has been named editor and publisher of Cornell Magazine. Gibson's appointment was made by the Cornell Magazine Committee of the Cornell Alumni Federation, which owns the publication. He is the first non-Cornell graduate to head the magazine and will assume his new role in late May. Gibson succeeds Stephen Madden '86, who has left the magazine to become a senior editor at Sports Illustrated.
Almost two dozen people discussed the role of technology in promoting a safe and civil campus community Nov. 30 at the second Caring Community Forum. (Dec. 2, 2010)
Twenty-eight teen-agers associated with the New York City agency Boys Harbor will attend Cornell's Summer College, from June 22 to Aug. 6, on scholarship support from an anonymous donor. Six students from Central Park East High School and University Heights (Bronx) High School in New York also are coming to Summer College with scholarship support from the Uris Foundation.
Cornell University has announced that 19 of its undergraduate students will receive a scholarship for up to four years -- the 2004 Howard Milstein Scholarship in Arts and Sciences -- based on academic accomplishment and financial need. The annual scholarship, funded by a gift from Cornell alumnus Howard Milstein, was established in 2000 to enhance the Cornell College of Arts and Sciences' ability to attract and enroll some of the world's most intellectually able students. (December 9, 2004)
Wanted, dead or alive: the brown-marmorated stink bug. "We are asking homeowners in the Pacific Northwest to be on the lookout for these bugs, and if they think they have found any, to collect them.
The six-week Cornell Plantation's PEEPS program aims to give high school students ecological awareness and to cultivate in them an environmental ethic for future actions.