A $2,245,997 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide fellowships for 12 Cornell graduate students each year over the next five years in a new interdisciplinary program on nonlinear systems.
The Graduate and Professional Student Parental Accommodation policy is designed to provide students with the time and funds to deal with the demands of childbirth, adoption, foster care and acute child health care. (Aug. 21, 2008)
Cornell's American Indian Program is offering its students a chance to participate in an upcoming United Nations forum on indigenous issues. The program also has strengthened support for students and scholars. (March 25, 2009)
Harry Potter fans and bird enthusiasts from all walks of life are invited to help track "Harry Potter's owl" and other birds Feb. 15-18, in the fifth annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC). A project of Audubon and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology with sponsorship from Wild Birds Unlimited, the GBBC asks everyone with an interest in birds -- families, individuals, classrooms, community groups -- to count the numbers and kinds of birds they see during any or all of the four count days. They can count in their backyards, schoolyards, local parks, nature centers, even at the office. (January 28, 2002)
In the developed world, societies enjoy abundant diets more varied now than at any other time in history. That's in stark contrast to the developing world where millions of people confront profound food insecurity every day.
LeNorman J. Strong, assistant vice president for Student and Academic Services, has announced new directors in Campus Life's senior management team. (June 30, 2006)
Cornell Plantations has added two more natural areas to its just over 4,000 acres of biologically diverse and ecologically fragile natural areas. They are a 120-acre chestnut oak forest with a mountain laurel understory on Bald…
Cornell's Ithaca campus and its iconic upstate setting may be what many envision when they think of the university, but Cornell has long had a presence on the cosmopolitan stages of New York City.
Ann Stunden joined Cornell's Information Technologies as director of support services and academic computing earlier this month (January). Stunden will work with academic and administrative units to assure that adequate support exists throughout Cornell to enable faculty and staff to use information technologies in pursuit of the university's academic mission.
Garden Mosaics, a science education and outreach program based at Cornell University that has been thriving in more than two dozen cities around the country for several years, now has taken root internationally, most notably in…