Tompkins County residents voiced their opinions June 28 about whether the city of Ithaca should allow Cornell to install nets under three city-owned bridges on and adjacent to campus. (June 29, 2011)
In a new book of essays by higher education leaders, Cornell President David Skorton advises the next president of the United States to use American higher education to help solve world problems. (July 8, 2008)
Various Cornellians reaped prizes at the Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting, June 11-14, including a student team who took first prize for developing cassava cookies for poor countries.
A $12.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will create VIVOweb, a multi-institutional version of Cornell's VIVO system to encourage communication between biomedical researchers. (Oct. 27, 2009)
The senator visited Syracuse's City Hall July 2 for an alternative energy forum featuring exhibits by the Cornell University Renewable Bioenergy Initiative and other sustainable energy projects. (July 3, 2008)
Certain chemicals in green tea - and perhaps red wine - can alter how we perceive flavors, reports a Cornell study that also found the chemicals stored in the body for the first time. (Dec. 14, 2010)
Giving high school students access to computers and spreading awareness of what causes malaria were the goals of two different student groups who conducted service trips to Ghana over winter break. (March 4, 2009)
Cornell computer science students are using computer games to attract public school students to computer science with a free after-school course in game-making. (March 4, 2009)