After graduating from Cornell, Debra Smith '03 went to Namibia, where she taught school in a village, coached a novice team of teenage girls to the national championship in volleyball and was a surgical assistant in an Angolan hospital.
Chad Walter has made it to victory lane twice in the Daytona 500 -- the Super Bowl of NASCAR -- not behind the wheel of a winning stock car but on the team that engineered it.
Cornell researchers leading a multi-institutional team studying an eye disease infecting house finches have received a five-year $2.5 million National Science Foundation award to continue their work.
Members of the 1966 Cornell Glee Club, which made a historic tour of Asia, will perform together for the first time in 40 years during Homecoming, Oct. 14.
Cornell's Division of Nutritional Sciences will be a founding member of the Upstate New York Translational Research Network, part of the University of Rochester's new Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
Research Notebook: More than eight out of 10 New York state residents consider childhood obesity a major problem, and almost half favor a ban on candy and soda advertising on children's television programming.
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My wife and I recently saw in Minneapolis at the new Guthrie Theater the world premiere of "The Great Gatsby," adapted by Simon Levy, and the first authorized stage version of the novel since 1926. [F. Scott]…
Seven distinguished Cornell alumni have received Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Awards recognizing their outstanding long-term service as Cornell volunteers.