The Cornell University Board of Trustees approved a 2001-02 budget that calls for a 4.9 percent tuition increase for the endowed colleges at its meeting in New York City Saturday (Jan. 27, 2001).
A gift from the Uihlein Foundation will be used to endow the director's position at the Uihlein Forest Maple Sugar Field Station, in Lake Placid, N.Y., over the next six years. (Jan. 16, 2007)
Executives who sign up to learn how to lead fast-growth companies at IBM's Advanced Business Institute this winter also will get lessons in crisis management.
The CUSat team has been 'manifested' for flight - that is, the satellite is guaranteed a spot on a rocket bound for space, where it will conduct experiments in low-Earth orbit. (Dec. 13, 2010)
The hotel business -- while suffering from the drop in air travel -- actually is doing better than has been reported, with a new marketing focus, fewer layoffs and more optimism in many quarters, a national survey of general managers shows.
The appointment of Mary George Opperman as associate vice president for human resources at Cornell has been announced by Senior Vice President Frederick A. Rogers. She will assume her new position July 15.
Cornell University Director of Athletics Andy Noel announced today (Nov. 25) that Tim Pendergast has been dismissed as head football coach at the university. The Cornell football team posted a 1-9 record this season under Pendergast, including a 0-7 mark in Ivy League play. (November 25, 2003)
The period of Jan. 1 through Sept. 30 was the wettest for the Northeast in 102 years of records, according to climatologists from the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Cornell researcher Derek Stewart and collaborators have calculated the exact mechanism by which diamond conducts heat, a breakthrough that could lend insight into many fields, including electronics. (Sept. 21, 2009)