Four incoming freshmen from India are the first recipients of the Tata Scholarship for Students from India, creating the inaugural class of what could eventually comprise two dozen Indian undergraduates at Cornell. (May 6, 2009)
Porus Olpadwala, professor of city and regional planning, will be the first professor and dean of Hans Bethe House, which opens officially in August 2007.
An international group of agricultural scientists is studying how to feed the world while conserving natural ecosystems. In a first step, the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has chosen Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to study how to unite agricultural and environmental land management worldwide. Louise Buck, Cornell senior extension associate in natural resources, will lead the "ecoagriculture" assessment team. "Around the world there has been too much competition between agriculture and natural resources," says Buck. "This is bringing together the state of the art in natural science and social science research, all for managing agricultural land systems and conserving biodiversity. We are looking for synergies." (December 8, 2003)
Editors' picks for Cornell events during the week of Sept. 19 range from Saturn exhibition to poetry performance to a visit by a Bollywood star. (Sept. 19, 2008)
Cornell and the Technion have received numerous expressions of support from entrepreneurs and academics in their partnership bid for the New York City Tech Campus. The proposal is due Oct. 28.
More than 300 students in Psychology 101 are taking part in the largest-ever objective study of the sleep patterns of individual college students. (Nov. 18, 2009)
Marc Zawel, former managing editor of the Cornell Daily Sun, will return to his alma mater Thursday, Oct. 13, to talk about the national release of his first published work.
Renowned foreign policy historian Walter LaFeber explained why he didn't think this ever was 'an American century,' in a talk in Keeton House, Nov. 11. (Nov. 16, 2010)