Why has tuition outpaced the Consumer Price Index? The simple answer is that Cornell offers a premium product (an education at an elite institution) in an extremely competitive market, and to stay ahead of the pack, the university must keep getting the best students, faculty and facilities -- and the best rankings. And that costs a lot of money.
Five Cornellians with careers from medicine to forensic science to art preservation will return to campus April 11 for "The Places You Will Go: How Chemistry Impacted my Life – Cornell and Beyond."
The President's Council of Cornell Women - 358 highly successful alumnae who advocate on behalf of Cornell women - celebrates its 20th year with gala events on campus April 29-May 1. (April 30, 2010)
Capt. Kathy Zoner, a 14-year veteran of Cornell University Police, has been named assistant director. She is the highest ranking woman in the department's history. (December 22, 2005)
Given that Cornell ranked third in Peace Corps volunteers recruited in 2009, it is no wonder that Aaron Williams, the international volunteer agency's director, paid a visit to campus Sept. 2.
Eight Army cadets, five Navy midshipmen and one Marine Corps midshipman were welcomed into the ranks of officers in a commissioning ceremony in Statler Auditorium on the morning of May 28. (May 28, 2011)
The Cornell University Department of Statistical Science has become a department of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science. (November 29, 2005)
Cornell researchers have come up with a text-mining method of analyzing online customer reviews, which they have found do not tell the full story of how guests view a hotel.
Cornell’s network of business incubators and accelerators have developed into a growing and robust entrepreneurial engine nurtured with resources, training and mentorship that help faculty, research staff and graduate students launch marketable ideas and technologies.
A just-published study that used 11 years of data from 30 selective private colleges and universities shows what educators have long suspected -- where colleges and universities place in the U.S. News and World Report annual rankings really makes a difference.