Through a collection of alumni stories, the Consortium on Financing Higher Education looks at the ways universities serve the public. Renowned pediatrician Margaret Morgan Lawrence '36 is profiled in the piece.
Cats with the annoying habit of spraying urine on vertical surfaces are needed at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine for a clinical trial of a new treatment.
Cornell Professor Emeritus of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology Walter T. Federer, who is credited with founding Cornell's original statistics department, died April 14. He was 92. (April 18, 2008)
Mycologist Kathie Hodge, presented 'Beneath Notice: Little Fungi for Good and Evil,' Jan. 25, in Cornell's Mann Library as part of the Light in Winter Festival of Sciences and the Arts.
Pianist and composer Jason Moran will open the 2008-09 Cornell Concert Series Sept. 20 with a free concert, a multimedia tribute to Thelonious Monk. (Sept. 9, 2008)
Johnson & Johnson, the multinational medical products concern, has yet again shown its support of Cornell research by awarding a $270,000, three-year grant to Bruce Ganem.
The home of Displaced Homemakers of Tompkins County is one of several older residences on Tioga Street. Thanks to a Cornell sophomore class project, however, the building soon will have all new signs and detailed plans for a facelift, inside and out.
Summer visitors to Cornell Plantations have been marveling at the brilliant flowers and foliage in the container plantings on display at Plantations' Lewis Education Center.
About 17 percent of college students -- 20 percent of women and 14 percent of men -- report that they have cut, burned, carved or harmed themselves in other ways, reports a new survey by Cornell and Princeton University researchers.
Birdwatchers can now report possible sightings of the recently rediscovered ivory-billed woodpecker on a Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology Web site: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/story17.htm. Birders can also request a reporting form by calling the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at (800) 843-2473.