Many Cornell students who live off campus call Collegetown home during the academic year. But Collegetown is also home to year-round residents and families, private homes and large apartment complexes, and a bustling business district.
Cornell today (Nov. 3, 1998) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for an exchange of agricultural, nutritional and environmental information, as well as community and rural development knowledge.
Cornell researchers Terrill Cool, professor of applied physics, and Frederick Gouldin, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, have been awarded research instrumentation grants from the Department of Defense/U.S. Army.
Jennie McGraw, a Dryden socialite in the 1800s whose charitable contributions gave Cornell its chimes and Dryden its library, is the subject of a new musical, Jennie's Will.
Horticulturists, authors and landscape designers - plus one ecologist, one mycologist and one literary critic - are in the lineup for the Fall '99 Cornell Plantations Seminar Series with 10 Wednesday evening lectures, starting Sept. 8 at Cornell.
Each year, the American Association of Retired Persons honors 50 employers in the United States for their practices and policies for mature workers with its 'AARP Best Employers for Workers Over 50' list. Cornell is ranked No. 5.
Larry D. Brown, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell, will receive the Chinese government's 2001 Friendship Award during celebrations of the 52nd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Sept. 27-Oct. 2.
The Middle States Association Commission on Higher Education has accepted Cornell's Periodic Review Report and reaffirmed without condition the university's accreditation. The commission, at its November 1996 meeting, deemed no follow-up to be necessary and set the next regular evaluation visit for 2000-2001.
Wayne Harbert, professor of linguistics and director of undergraduate studies for the department, translates Old English kennings about swords from firsthand experience with blacksmithing. (July 21, 2010)