Nineteen Tompkins County nonprofits received a combined $60,000 in grants this month, thanks to graduate students in a philanthropic leadership class that teaches the value of giving.
Science – and astronomy – are for everyone at Cornell’s Spacecraft Planetary Image Facility, which supports astronomy research and performs K-12 and other outreach across New York state.
Cornell will honor longtime volunteer Beth Harrington on Feb. 5 for her work to make the Town of Caroline more resilient in the face of emergencies, with support from a team of graduate students.
The crew building the fieldhouse embraced the hawks as part of daily life, even sporting stickers of Big Red on their hard hats and creating and filling a makeshift birdbath to keep them cool.
Led by two Cornell graduate students, more than 300 volunteers are heading out into the rain on warm spring nights to help migrating salamanders and frogs.
Ithaca Community Recovery schedules more than 200 meetings a month for 35 groups - a new platform designed by project team Hack4Impact will make it easier to populate, track and edit the calendar.
Pre-Orientation Service Trips, a program that offers incoming students four days of service, reflection and community-building, drew 40 first-year and transfer students together with six senior team leaders and two sophomores.
Through a series of visits to regional farms and experimentation with local wool, students in the College of Human Ecology are discovering its idiosyncrasies and charms.