On March 20, the inaugural class of Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar learned where they would be doing their postgraduate residency training. (March 28, 2008)
The hot topic of gay marriage in the United States will be the focus of a debate at Cornell University between two noted advocates on opposite sides of the issue. Elizabeth Birch, attorney and former executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, and Robert H. Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute, will square off on the subject April 6 at 8 p.m. in the Statler Auditorium. The debate is free and open to the public, but tickets are required and they will be available beginning March 16 at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office, on campus. (March 15, 2004)
High school students from across the country and around the world are experiencing university life this summer at Cornell while exploring possible majors and earning credits. (July 20, 2007)
Cornell University Library has signed a partnership with Microsoft Corp. that will add books published before 1923 to its online collections, making 'checking out' books even easier.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings will be part of a select group of university presidents participating at the U.S. University Presidents' Summit in Washington, D.C., in January. Rawlings was invited to attend by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, who are hosting the summit. (December 13, 2005)
Steven D. Tanksley, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics, is the winner of the prestigious 2005 Kumho Science International Award in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. The $30,000 prize is the world's largest in the field of plant molecular biology. The prize, awarded by the International Society for Plant Molecular Biology (ISPMB), is for Tanksley's pioneering work in genome mapping, comparative genomics and marker-assisted breeding of crop plants. (January 24, 2005)
With the announcement of a $50 million gift to Cornell - $25 million of it slated for scholarships - more students from India will soon be able to come to Ithaca, regardless of their financial circumstances. (Oct. 17, 2008)
An obscure paper on superconductivity was recently rediscovered by a Cornell University professor and has been posted on the Internet on Cornell's e-print service arXiv. (November 29, 2005)