Alumnus Seth Cochran climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in June to raise money for The Smile Train, a charity that provides cleft palate and lip surgeries to children in underdeveloped countries. (July 26, 2007)
At Cornell's Early Childhood Center (ECC), the sound of music reverberates throughout the day, all in the name of fun, creative expression and brain development.
Studies by Cornell's Ron Hoy have been cited by the National Institutes of Health as the best 2004 example of "translational research" in a special report to Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson. (June 9, 2004)
Engineering students revived the tradition of creating a phoenix float to confront the dragon as it passed the Engineering Quad on Dragon Day 2008. (March 14, 2008)
Andrew Clark, Steven Strogatz, Eva Tardos and William Thurston have been named Jacob Gould Schurman Professors, one of the most prestigious chairs at the university. (July 20, 2007)
The drought that devastated agriculture in the northeastern United States was the most significant of nine major weather events in the region last year, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) at Cornell.
Editors' picks for events the week of Oct. 17 range from a Shuffle Concert to the Hans Bethe lectures to the NOW Dance Company from Seoul, South Korea. (Oct. 16, 2008)