The Cornell Biodiversity Laboratory, an education/research field station at Punta Cana on the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic, has been expanded and renamed the Punta Cana Association on Sustainability and Biodiversity. The newly formed consortium of academic and nonprofit organizations will accommodate the growing number of such organizations interested in using the field laboratory and the expanding environmental resources and facilities at Punta Cana. (February 25, 2003)
Cornell has been recognized by a national awards program for an online version of Books in Print developed by Campus Store employees. The Higher Education Awards Program, sponsored by the National Association of Colleges and University Business Officers and Barnes & Noble College Bookstores.
The Department of Textiles and Apparel at Cornell has joined the prestigious National Textile Center Consortium, a group of universities focused on research to sharpen the global competitiveness of the domestic textile and apparel industry.
Students at Lansing High School are participating in the first field test of a robot vehicle that will explore the surface of Mars in the early years of the new century.
David R. Atkinson '60 and his wife, Patricia Atkinson, have committed $80 million to provide a permanent center on campus that will position Cornell to be a global leader in sustainability. (Oct. 28, 2010)
As winter finches move south across the Canada-U.S. border in what may be record numbers, ornithological scientists are getting their best-ever look at a massive bird 'irruption,' thanks to thousands of citizen scientists.
The Galileo spacecraft has taken a risky spin through Jupiter's lethal radiation belts to capture the highest-resolution images yet of three of the planet's four innermost moons.
John Boudreau, professor in the Department of Human Resources at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources (NAHR). NAHR is considered the foremost professional organization in human resources in the United States.
On April 15, a workshop for nonprofit groups organized by Michelle M. Thompson, a visiting lecturer in Cornell's Department of City and Regional Planning, took place at Albert R. Mann Library.
Terrence Fine, Cornell professor of electrical engineering and statistical science, has been named director of Cornell's Center for Applied Mathematics.