President David Skorton provided a review of Cornell's past year to local service clubs, April 28, noting that it has been a difficult year, but Cornell remains resource-rich and is poised to grow again. (April 29, 2010)
Thomas W. Bruce, vice president for university communications since 2004, has been named senior vice president for public affairs at Dartmouth College. He will begin his new position Nov. 18.
Cornell received a Forrester Groundswell Award Nov. 19 for the globalrust.org website, which provides tools for people fighting the virulent new diseases of wheat that threaten world food security. (Nov. 29, 2010)
The Departments of Food Science and of Plant Pathology each host about one dozen undergraduates from around the country as summer scholars to garner career interest in their fields. (June 20, 2011)
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is investing $25M in a project, hosted at Cornell, that seeks to improve cassava crops in sub-Saharan Africa. (Nov. 30, 2012)
Cornell deepened its century-long commitment to western New York's wine, grape and juice industries when it opened its new $5.4 million Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory, Aug. 25.
A week of events starting Sept. 26 will mark the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Open Doors, Open Hearts and Open Minds statement on diversity, tolerance and inclusiveness at Cornell.
President Skorton will join college students, fellow university officials and global leaders seeking to effect change in the world, during the inaugural meeting of Clinton Global Initiative University. (March 12, 2008)
Howard Evans, professor emeritus of biomedical sciences, gives biweekly talks on campus about natural history, from antlers and fossils to rocks and minerals. He also speaks at area public schools. (Nov. 23, 2010)
An assistant professor in anthropology will study plant biology and international intellectual property law to keep African healers from commercialization without remuneration with a Mellon fellowship. (June 8, 2011)