There are always ways to improve a situation and do things better than they've been done before, said Howard Milstein '73, the 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year, at the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration. (April 14, 2008)
The seventh Cornell Council for the Arts Individual Grants exhibition opens Jan. 11 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell University campus. The exhibition features the work of nine artists who were awarded the grants in either 1992, 1993 or 1994.
Cornell gave Class of 1975 graduates in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) much more than vocational training in their respective fields, said eight alumni who were part of a special panel during Reunion Weekend.
The Cornell Council for the Arts announced painter James Siena '79 will receive the 2009-10 Eissner Artist of the Year Award, and Dorian Bandy '10 the annual Cornell Undergraduate Artist Award. (June 16, 2009)
To highlight the growing importance of the study of genome variation and Cornell's expertise in the field, the university has launched the Cornell Center for Comparative and Population Genomics. (Oct. 29, 2008)
Peter Eisenman, world-renowned architect and 1955 graduate of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning, will deliver this year's Preston Thomas Memorial Lectures at Cornell.
To save water, enter your ZIP code and click. The Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) at Cornell University has introduced a Lawn Watering Input Web site to make it easy for homeowners and groundskeepers to prevent lawns and grassy knolls from being saturated. (May 24, 2004)
The Cornell Council for the Arts has announced the winners for three awards: 2005-06 Edward R. Murray Scholarship, Undergraduate Student Artist Award and Distinguished Alumni Award.
Peter C. Meinig, a 1962 graduate of Cornell University and chairman and chief executive officer of HM International Inc. of Tulsa, Okla., was unanimously elected chairman of the Cornell Board of Trustees at its first meeting of 2002 in New York City, Jan. 25. Meinig's one-year term begins July 1. He will succeed Harold Tanner, a 1952 Cornell graduate who has served as chairman since 1997. (January 28, 2002)
Fingerprint identification, which recently was ruled by a Philadelphia federal judge to be scientifically flawed as evidence, is unlikely to be replaced by DNA profiling in the courts, says a Cornell researcher.