Farah Hussain '05, a local youth and sustainability activist with a worldwide vision, believes that young people have what it takes to solve the world's most-pressing problems.
"Some people only see youths' negative attributes,"…
Joel Perlman, BFA '65, was 14 when he decided to become a sculptor. He was a scrappy scholarship kid at Fieldston School in the Bronx then, hard hit by the recent, sudden death of his father from a heart attack at 47.
To help…
Cornell University's Department of Food Science has selected Crowley Foods of Albany as the processor of the highest quality milk in New York for 2006.
The selection is part of the New York State Milk Quality Improvement Program,…
The setting is the same as it has been for more than 1,200 Sundays -- a modest stage, some microphones, coffee brewing nearby and a small, engaged audience.
WVBR's "Bound For Glory," a beacon for folk-music lovers, is celebrating…
The editors of R&D Magazine and MicroNano Newsletter have selected DNA buckyballs created by Dan Luo, Cornell assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering, as one of the 25 "most innovative products of 2006…
Éva Tardos, Cornell professor of computer science, has received the George B. Dantzig Prize, awarded jointly by the Mathematical Programming Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Established in…
Sandip Tiwari, the Charles N. Mellowes Professor in Engineering and director of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), has been named the recipient of the 2007 Cledo Brunetti Award from the IEEE.
The IEEE …
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell professor of computer science, received the 2006 Rolf Nevanlinna Prize at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain, for his "deep, creative and insightful contributions to the…
Chang Y. "Cy" Lee, professor of food science and chair of the Department of Food Science and Technology at Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., was recently elected a fellow of the…
When the online journal Public Library of Science Medicine (PLoS Medicine) accepted a paper that provided new evidence that environmental pollutants reduce the effectiveness of childhood vaccinations, the editors turned to a…