Acclaimed educator, designer and author Dagmar Richter has been appointed to chair the Department of Architecture, effective July 1. She comes to Cornell from UCLA. (May 13, 2009)
Graduate student Erik Patel has traveled 15 times to Madagascar in his quest to study the rare silky sifaka lemur and as director of a nonprofit he founded to protect the snowy white creatures. (Feb. 7, 2011)
In a few months, nearly every home in Atima, Honduras, will have safe, clean drinking water, thanks to a treatment plant principally designed by Cornell engineering students. (Jan. 26, 2012)
Much of the research and discovery in biological science is now taking place at the interface of the life sciences with other disciplines, from materials science to computer engineering.
Science educators at Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences hope dog-lovers can sit-and-stay by their computers for six weeks. That's how long it takes to complete a new home-study course on canine genetics via the Internet.
Caroline Klivans, an undergraduate mathematics major at Cornell University, has been awarded the ninth annual Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize by the Association for Women in Mathematics.
Cornell is abuzz all summer with some 4,000 students taking classes or doing research, 400 adults in Cornell Adult University and scores of visitors taking part in one of 60 conferences on campus. (June 25, 2010)
The Johnson School's Debra Paget and Jeffrey Berg Business Simulation Laboratory allows researchers to present people with realistic business situations in a controlled-experiment setting. (Nov. 5, 2007)
Cornell researchers discovered that the gypsy moth's fungal and viral pathogens follow close behind migrating populations, making control efforts unnecessary, reports entomologist Ann Hajek. (June 9, 2010)