The Cornell University Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association held its first-ever reunion in conjunction with Cornell’s Reunion Weekend 2014, celebrating its 35th anniversary and bringing together an incredibly diverse membership.
The Cornell Local Roads Program improves New York’s roads by serving the 1,500 village, town and county officials who maintain them, with workshops, technical assistance and up-to-date best practices.
Interior design and behavioral science students collaborated on a project this semester to design new fitness and physical therapy spaces at Kendal at Ithaca. They built full-scale models of their proposed solutions. (Dec. 9, 2008)
The Eco-Fashion Team from Cornell's Office of Publications and Marketing has won prizes in this year's Green T Reuse Design Contest, an Ithaca-based project of SewGreen. (March 19, 2008)
Fabrics have always been an integral part of flight, according to a Cornell University video. And now, this connection will be a featured part of a new Smithsonian Institution exhibit in the new gallery, How Things Fly, in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Cornell alumna and legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, professor of law, Columbia University and the University of California-Los Angeles, will deliver the keynote address for the Africana Studies and Research Center's conference "Brown vs. Board of Education: Race and Education 50 Years Later."
Larry D. Brown, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell, will receive the Chinese government's 2001 Friendship Award during celebrations of the 52nd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Sept. 27-Oct. 2.
U.S. News and World Report has placed Cornell at the top of its rankings for best undergraduate engineering science/engineering physics program for the second year in a row. In overall rankings, Cornell tied for 12th place. (Aug. 18, 2006)
Recent gifts of comic art from two alumni have not only brought some laughter into the rare book vault at Cornell University Library but also some primary sources for scholars studying art and culture.