Gary Stewart, deputy director of government relations and director of community relations at Cornell, received the 2013 Key Member of the Year Award from the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce Jan. 30.
Connecting upstate and downstate, urban and rural, a pavilion made from reused metal grain bins opened to the public June 23 on Governors Island in lower New York Harbor. Four Cornell faculty members collaborated on the project with a team including students and alumni.
Students have organized Mental Health Awareness Week Oct. 16-23 to draw attention to the need for students to take advantage of campus services to help them cope with stress and other issues.
Researchers at Cornell and Weill Cornell Medical College have received a $1.34 million grant to study whether obesity changes breast tissue in a manner similar to tumors, thereby permitting the disease to develop.
Professors Dennis Miller and Martin Wiedmann will be among 22 people inducted into the International Academy of Food Science and Technology this August in Iguassu Falls, Brazil.
A profile of Peter Wittich, associate professor of physics, who works on neutrinos with ever larger teams of scientists at major international research facilities such as Fermilab and CERN.
Qi Wang, professor of human development, will receive the 2013 Outstanding Contribution to Research on Asian/Asian Americans award from the Society for Research on Child Development.
Tickets for Employee Celebration, slated for Oct. 13, are on sale for staff, faculty, retirees and their families, including athletic events, dinner and children's activities. (Sept. 5, 2012)
A record number of high school students from 40 countries and 500 cities around the world took undergraduate classes at Summer College this year. But a handful of those who might benefit the most are from right down the road.
Blue forms adorning the Ag Quad are more than whimsical art to engage passersbys: the shapes are visions of what landfill architecture might look like in the future, according to Katherine Jenkins.