Nearly 300 middle school and high school 4-H members gathered in Syracuse last month at a three-day summit about learning leadership and life skills at fun-filled workshops.
More than 130 participants gathered in Syracuse to explore how to meet the workforce demands of the food and beverage industry in New York, which is expected to expand 30 percent in the next decade.
Cornell University has received state approval to offer a long-awaited undergraduate major in biomedical engineering (BME) and will begin taking sophomores into the program this fall.
Students in architecture, engineering, city planning and other design-based fields are working together in Cornell's Design and Planning Club on community-based outreach projects and design competitions. (Oct. 1, 2009)
Fleet Operations has added two Toyota Siennas to its fleet that have been modified for individuals who require hand controls for driving to use for official university business. (Nov. 14, 2011)
Since Cornell's Adoption Assistance Program was implemented in 2005, 39 families have received assistance from the university to help with their adoption expenses. Here's a look at how two families benefited. (May 1, 2009)
Faculty members Andrea Bachner, Victoria Beard, Saurabh Mehta and Daniel Selva will start three-year terms this summer as Cornell’s first cohort of International Faculty Fellows with the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
Cornell University Library honored retiring University Archivist Elaine Engst, M.A. '72, June 17 for her work, and for "implementing changes with grace, humor and style" over her 36-year career.
The Department of Economics has hired an undergraduate student experience coordinator and created a new undergraduate economics lounge. The changes will improve connections between more than 500 undergraduate majors.
At an ILR School talk Nov. 8, Daniel Katz told of parallels between today and the 1930s, when the nation and its labor unions were divided by issues of race and gender equality and immigration. (Nov. 9, 2011)