Forty students in Cornell Wind Ensembles performed concerts, led workshops for high school musicians and gave instruments to two schools on a service-learning trip to Washington, D.C.
The Cornell Elves, a program that started with holiday giving but now has extended to supporting area schoolchildren when school starts, gave out a record number of backpacks this year: 449. (Sept. 13, 2010)
The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect at Cornell, which maintains datasets for researchers, has been renewed with $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (April 20, 2011)
In 2013-14, the new major, environmental science and sustainability, will launch in the Department of Natural Resources, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Associate professor of animal science Dan Brown, Ph.D. ’81, has recommended ways to reduce contamination of peanuts, a staple crop in the developing world.
A new partnership between Cornell's Early Childhood Cognition Laboratory and Ithaca's Sciencenter results in on-site research while Sciencenter visitors get to see how science is done. (Nov. 7, 2012)
The American Indian Program marked its 30th anniversary and reflected on its history at Cornell at a conference April 12-13 with native community leaders, scholars, program alumni and faculty.
Cornell closed fiscal 2013 with a record-breaking $475 million in cash gifts to the “Cornell Now” campaign, including $278.1 million for the Ithaca campus, its highest ever in cash contributions.
Thirty apple orchard owners around New York state are growing new apple varieties developed at the Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva to test whether the apples should be commercialized. (April 30, 2009)
Nearly 50 high school physics teachers gathered at the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education Institute for Physics Teachers workshop Oct. 27. (Nov. 1, 2012)