With new events to increase awareness, the Cornell Student United Way received the inaugural United Way Worldwide Student United Way Campus Organization of the Year award May 6. (May 16, 2011)
The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, hosted by the School of Hotel Administration, recently gave 11 disabled vets skills and training in hospitality entrepreneurship. (Nov. 27, 2012)
CUPetHealth, developed by students, can help pet owners track how much they feed their cats or dogs as well as their pet's vaccinations and medications.
As New York Gov. David Paterson outlined his vision June 8 to make New York state a global leader in the knowledge-based economy, he cited President David Skorton's task force as the type of initiative that will create jobs. (June 10, 2009)
The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded Cornell $7.07 million to focus on developing the resistance of the East African Highland banana in Uganda to pests and major diseases. (Dec. 1, 2011)
Food scientist Martin Wiedmann is collaborating with 3M to test a new molecular diagnostic system that could cut pathogen detection times from 72 hours to just 18 hours.
The focus of the Nov. 14 Lund Critical Debate was whether China has become a world superpower. Two experts agreed that the answer was no. (Nov. 19, 2012)
Law scholar Annelise Riles spoke about her new book, 'Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets' in Myron Taylor Hall's Moot Court Room April 27. (May 5, 2011)
Graduate students will spend the summer and upcoming school year working with area teachers on science curricula, supported by a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to Cornell. (May 29, 2009)
An activist seeking to remediate damage from Agent Orange said that the toxic herbicide's effects linger 35 years after being sprayed on Vietnam. (Nov. 21, 2011)