Young people leave upstate New York at typical rates, but the rate of young people moving here is extraordinarily low. A panel discussion Dec. 2 looked at ways to change that scenario.
Professors N'Dri Assie-Lumumba and Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo have each received the 2010 Distinguished Africanist Award from the New York State African Studies Association. (April 15, 2010)
Near Eastern studies professor Kim Haines-Eitzen explores how natural desert sounds influenced monastic texts, from tropes like the wind as God's voice to demons sounding like thunder.
Helene R. Dillard, Cornell University professor of plant pathology, has been appointed director of Cornell Cooperative Extension and associate dean of Cornell's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and New York State College of Human Ecology. She succeeds D. Merrill Ewert, who took the position of president of Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, Calif., this past summer. Dillard's appointment begins Oct. 1. (September 30, 2002)
In 2007, Cornell's Homer C. Thompson Research Farm in Freeville donated a record 178,000 pounds – or about 82 tons – of fresh produce, more than double what the research farm gave away in 2004, to three local food banks.
Student fashion designers are sketching and making patterns, finding and fitting models, and cutting and sewing fabrics for the 31st Cornell Fashion Collective runway show, Saturday, April 11 at 8 p.m. in Barton Hall.
Harvey Klein, the William S. Paley Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and physician to recent Cornell presidents, offered a prescription to the Cornell Presidential Search Subcommittee on Sept. 7.
Puffed rice just got more snap, crackle and pop, thanks to a new method for making puffed rice that retains nutrients and allows producers to fortify cereals with vitamins and protein.
Two undergraduates have won Udall Scholarship. They are Shoshannah Lenski, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Lena Samsonenko, a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.