Seemingly against the odds in a tough economic year, this year's Cornell reunion classes and graduating senior class broke records in making gifts to support the university. (June 25, 2009)
The CATALYST Academy at Cornell will host a one-week summer program to engage underrepresented minority high school students in science and engineering. (June 25, 2009)
President David Skorton will visit Ethiopia, Tanzania and Rwanda during a two-week trip, beginning July 1. Skorton will speak at the Bahir Dar University graduation and discuss opportunities for collaboration. (June 25, 2009)
It is now possible to engineer tiny containers the size of a virus to deliver drugs and other materials with almost 100 percent efficiency to targeted cells in the bloodstream, according to a new Cornell study. (June 25, 2009)
An autonomous, lightweight robot created by Cornell students for detecting land mines received high marks for design at the 2009 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. (June 25, 2009)
A Cornell/New York Times/NY1 poll asked New Yorkers their views on obesity, key politicians, the economy and gay marriage in early June. Questions were contributed by Times pollsters and Cornell faculty members. (June 25, 2009)
Cornell biochemist Shu-Bing Qian of the Division of Nutrition Sciences has received a $400,000 grant over four years to study how diet impacts the aging process at the molecular level. (June 25, 2009)
The mysterious 1908 Tunguska explosion that leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest was almost certainly caused by a comet entering Earth's atmosphere, says new Cornell research. (June 24, 2009)
Cornell is helping the military plant Defiant Gardens to give military families a way to connect with each other, with civilians and with their deployed parent or spouse. (June 24, 2009)
The $6 million, 11,000-square-foot facility in Riley Robb Hall will be used to develop renewable energy sources from such nonfood crops as switchgrass, sorghum and willow. (June 24, 2009)