The next U.S. president will face the daunting task of re-establishing the nation's legitimacy on the global stage, said scholars in a reunion weekend roundtable. (June 7, 2008)
The Sherwoods are alumni who perform each year on Reunion Weekend. The group was formed in 1958 by renegade choristers who left the Glee Club to follow their own drummer, so to speak. (June 6, 2008)
Geri Gay, chair of Cornell's Department of Communication, studies digital applications and then recommends improvements in how humans can better use technology. (June 6, 2008)
A federal court jury has found that Hewlett-Packard Corp. infringed on a Cornell patent for a computer instruction-processing technique and awarded the university $184 million in damages. (June 6, 2008)
With great expectations, the $162 million, 263,000-square-foot building designed by architect Richard Meier will open officially in October, though key residents are starting to move in this month. (June 6, 2008)
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell will receive a Grand Challenge award June 19 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its bioenergy vision paper. (June 6, 2008)
Obesity and type 2 diabetes are inextricably linked, but biochemist and geneticist Ling Qi is working to break that connection, and finding just the right gene could do it. (June 5, 2008)
Former President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea got a warm welcome from Arecibo Observatory staff during a visit in the run-up to the Puerto Rico Democratic Presidential primary. (June 5, 2008)
Horticultural scientist Susan K. Brown is mining the apple genome for the keys to some revolutionary reconceptions of a long-familiar fruit. (June 5, 2008)