Film editor Tim Squyres '81, who introduces his latest movie with Ang Lee, “Life of Pi,” March 10 at Cornell Cinema, talks about his embrace of film production as a Cornell student.
Three members of Cornell University's faculty, two from the Ithaca campus and one from the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, have been named Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellows. They are among 117 outstanding young researchers from 50 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada to receive awards of $40,000 over two years. The three fellows are Johannes Gehrke, assistant professor of computer science, and David Lin, assistant professor of biomedical sciences, both on the Ithaca campus, and Diana Murray, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology and director of the Computational Genomics Core Facility at Weill Cornell. (March 27, 2003)
For travelers going over the river and through the woods to celebrate Thanksgiving 2006, the best probability of seeing snow on the ground Nov. 23 in the Northeast is in Boonville, N.Y., which has a 54 percent chance of snow,…
Cornell professors Harry Greene, Paul Sawyer, Robert Smith and Robert Thorne have been chosen for this year's Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships, the Cornell Board of Trustees has announced. (Jan. 24, 2011)
A $20 million gift from the estate of Cayuga County resident Ruth Price Thomas will go to the Department of Architecture in Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning, President Hunter Rawlings announced Dec. 18.
Cornell's incoming Class of 2015 and new transfer students will discuss E.L. Doctorow's novel 'Homer and Langley,' the 2011 New Student Reading Project selection, in events on campus Aug. 21-22. (Aug. 18, 2011)
Susan Riha, Cornell's Charles L. Pack Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, has been appointed director of the New York State Water Resources Institute. (Oct. 4, 2007)
Cornell has been honored for collaborations with farmworkers providing research, policy advocacy and outreach support including workshops, legal and tax assistance, and tutoring.
Gourmet cuisine featuring food from local and regional farms and celebrity chef, author Suvir Saran will be on tap Sept. 24 at Robert Purcell Community Center. (Sept. 21, 2009)
Two disease-causing microorganisms, Cryptosporidium and Giardia, are the targets of an intensive campaign by researchers at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine.