The campaign milestone was announced by President David Skorton at the event, which was a celebration of the university's 'unparalleled capabilities' to solve some of the planet's most pressing problems through research, teaching and outreach.
Events on campus include a book talk on rural aging issues, guest filmmakers at Cornell Cinema, and a lecture on four controversial Anglophone books that found success when first published in France.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology provided audio and video recordings of birds to producers of the Hollywood comedy 'The Big Year,' starring actors Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson. (Oct. 12, 2011)
A new website hopes to bring together scientists in Latin America and North America through exchange of ideas, information and equipment. (Aug. 25, 2010)
Six students and staff from the Cornell's Southeast Asia Program as well as the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble helped celebrate the Asian Elephant Extravaganza at the Syracuse zoo Aug. 21. (Aug. 24, 2010)
Students celebrated the end of classes at Slope Day 2009. The Pussycat Dolls headlined the musical groups, with performances also by The Apples in Stereo and rapper Asher Roth. (May 1, 2009)
A new student group, SWAG (Scholars Working Ambitiously to Graduate), formed a peer-mentoring program to address low graduation rates of Cornell's African-American male students. (Oct. 5, 2011)
Researchers have uncovered cellular-level detail of what happens when bone bears repetitive stress over time, visualizing damage at smaller scales than previously observed.
For help designing the College of Human Ecology's newest community space, college leaders turned to a team of in-house experts: 10 senior interior design students. (Sept. 25, 2012)