Cornell Plantations offers a self-guided, mobile phone audio-visual tour and four new interpretive and orientation signs to help visitors learn more about the collections F.R. Newman Arboretum.
African-American adults – particularly women – on average have a significantly larger share of their social circle behind bars than whites, according to research co-authored by a Cornell professor.
Madelyn F. Wessel, university counsel at Virginia Commonwealth University, has been named university counsel and secretary of the corporation for Cornell University. The first woman to hold the position, Wessel will start May 8.
H. Laurance "Larry" Fuller '60 and Nancy Lawrence Fuller '62 have endowed the Fuller Professor of Ornithology for top scientists in lab research. The first to hold the position is Irby Lovette.
Cornell President Emeritus Hunter Rawlings recounted his career path and advised students not to worry so much about their long-term careers. (April 25, 2011)
The 2005 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony at Cornell will be awarded to the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Committee during a ceremony and reception April 29.
Thirty-eight undergraduates, grad students and visiting scholars from 12 nations enrolled in this summer's English for International Students and Scholars program.
The Rev. George Coyne of Le Moyne College will discuss the known universe and the interplay of science and religion in the annual Beggs Lecture, Nov. 11 in Sage Chapel.
As the number of species declines due to habitat loss, pollution and climate change, the risk of catching infectious diseases may rise for humans, animals and plants. (Dec. 2, 2010)
Twelve individuals and three groups were recognized with President's Awards for Employee Excellence Nov. 13, which honored staff members in five new categories including the first-ever team award, emphasizing the collaborative nature of work at Cornell.