The museum will celebrate groundbreaking for its $20 million, 16,000-square-foot addition May 17 from 1 to 3 p.m. The free public event also recognizes the museum's 35th anniversary. (May 5, 2008)
Five students will spend the 2008-09 academic year studying in Germany as a result of winning prestigious fellowships from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and the Cornell/Heidelberg Exchange. (May 5, 2008)
Fewer than 4 percent of the nation's firefighters are women, and more than half of paid fire departments have never hired a female firefighter, finds a new report issued by the ILR School's Institute for Women and Work. (May 5, 2008)
Slope Day 2008 started slow and ended wet, but even mid-afternoon rain didn't dampen the spirits of students gathered to celebrate the end of classes. (May 2, 2008)
'Saturn: Images From the Cassini-Huygens Mission,' an exhibit of 50 dramatic photographs captured by NASA's Cassini orbiter and the European Space Agency's Huygens lander, is on display through March 2009. (May 2, 2008)
A group of Cornell students will unveil what may be the largest temporary artwork in Ithaca's history on Mother's Day, May 11. The flowerlike design covers more than an acre and is intended to be viewed from the air. (May 2, 2008)
Anurag Agrawal, Chris Barrett and Sidney Leibovich use their expertise in the areas of the environment, economic development and energy to head initiatives and connect Cornell's research and scholarship related to sustainability. (May 2, 2008)
Professor emeritus William Binnington Ward died April 27 at Cayuga Medical Center following a brief illness. A longtime chair of the Department of Communication, he served on the faculty for 63 years. (May 2, 2008)
A 12-foot, blight-resistant chestnut tree has recently been planted in a park in White Plains, N.Y., to honor Ezra Cornell and to launch a Cornell Cooperative Extension project to help restore the American chestnut tree to the state. (May 2, 2008)
President David Skorton has accepted a revised Campus Code of Conduct that was submitted to him by the University Assembly on April 25. The board of trustees will meet May 23 to consider adoption of the code. (May 1, 2008)