A free six-week online course called “EECapacity for Public Garden Educators," co-hosted by Cornell, helps public garden educators transform their natural assets into community resources.
Hilary Dorsch Wong, a staff member in the Cornell Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, took advantage of Cornell's Wellness Program and Program for Healthy Living to learn to swim. (Aug. 20, 2012)
Members of the inaugural class of Cornell Tech MBA students are working with undergrads, grads and young alumni on a variety of entrepreneurial projects in Ithaca this summer.
Physicist Séamus Davis has received a $2 million, five-year grant to explore new ways to study “quantum materials” like superconductors, superfluids and whatever comes next.
The Cornell International Friendship Program seeks local volunteers to be friendship partners with international students or families, to help orient them to the Ithaca area.
A new book gives parents advice on loosening the so-called electronic umbilical cord to their college-age children, along with tips for such common challenges as the freshman 15 and roommate problems. (June 27, 2011)
Dean of Students Kent Hubbell has issued a statement on the recognition status of Sigma Pi fraternity following an investigation into a May 6 bias-related incident. (Aug. 16, 2012)
In a pilot internship program at Cornell, a group of 20 top-tier undergraduates from Colombia are conducting research in labs across campus until mid-July.
At a retreat focusing on crime and punishment Feb. 13-15, students in the Posse program along with their mentors discussed the U.S. prison and justice systems and ways to improve them.