The Cornell Board of Trustees has approved a 4.9 percent tuition increase for undergraduate students in the university's endowed colleges, and a 5.1 increase for those in the contract colleges.
Tuition for Cornell's Graduate School will drop by 10.1 percent next year for students in research-degree programs affiliated with the endowed colleges, and it will fall by about another 30 percent over the next three years, Dean Alison G. Power has announced. (Jan. 31, 2008)
The Cornell Tradition, an alumni-endowed student recognition program at Cornell, has honored its own graduating seniors with recognition awards. (May 21, 2007)
The stuff your doctor used to write down on a file card now goes into the doctor's computer, and is probably shared with your HMO. The same sort of thing is happening with your school and employment records.
A team of Cornell researchers has created a balloonlike membrane that is just one atom thick -- but strong enough to contain gasses under several atmospheres of pressure without popping. (Sept. 18, 2008)
Weill Cornell has partnered with the Touch Foundation and Sanford Weill to train doctors in Tanzania in an effort to alleviate the health-care crisis gripping that country. (Jan. 25, 2008)
A report on the Great E-mail Outage of 2008 offers measures to deal with future technical problems and to improve communication with the public. (Sept. 11, 2008)
Cornell's summer day camp for children of employees is now accepting registrations for the 1997 season. University Summer Day Camp will be held June 24 through Aug. 15, in two-week sessions. Attendance is limited to children who will enter grades one through eight this fall.
The Pew Charitable Trusts have granted $2 million toward the renovation of White Hall on the Cornell University Arts Quad. Named after Andrew D. White, Cornell's first president, White Hall is a $12 million project now underway and slated for completion in the fall of 2002 and ready for occupancy in Spring 2003. It is the top capital funding priority for the College of Arts and Sciences and an important part of the university's initiative to enhance undergraduate education. (May 7, 2002)