NEW YORK -- In past weeks, Cornellians in New York City celebrated the renaissance of Hillel, went birdwatching in Central Park and helped forge collaborations between labor and protectors of the environment worldwide.
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About 13,000 Cornell hockey fans helped to sell out New York City's Madison Square Garden, Nov. 24. And despite Cornell's 6-3 loss to Boston University, the fans enjoyed turning the venerable Garden into 'Lynah East.' (Nov. 27, 2007)
Assistant professor of art Michael Ashkin has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation supporting his upcoming solo sculpture exhibition in Vienna, Austria. (April 30, 2009)
Former NYC police investigator Christian Saffran is beginning his first year in the Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. Program to follow his dream of becoming a physician scientist.
A team led by Tanzeem Choudhury, assistant professor of computing and information science, has won the $100,000 first prize in the Heritage Open mHealth Challenge with a mobile app designed to assist patients with bipolar disorder.
Workers poured 200 yards of concrete continuously for more than 12 hours on Sept. 28 to form the dome that is a signature architectural feature of Paul Milstein Hall. (Oct. 4, 2010)
Undergraduates and graduate students are learning about museum practice from a variety of disciplinary perspectives in courses partnering the Johnson Museum with other academic resources at Cornell.
A tree grows in Brooklyn — despite big-city air pollutants. Meanwhile, identical trees planted downwind of city pollution grow only half as well — a surprising finding that ecologists in a Cornell University-based study, reported in the current issue of Nature.