The Cornell PULSE (Perceptions of Undergraduate Life and Student Experiences) Survey finds that student satisfaction, overall and with various aspects of the Cornell experience, remains high. (May 12, 2011)
President David Skorton and vice presidents Mary Opperman and Susan Murphy recognize 310 staff members celebrating 25, 30, 35, 40 or more years of service to Cornell at the 58th Annual Service Recognition Dinner, held April 17 in Bartels Hall.
Cornell's Faculty of Computing and Information Science now offers a major in information science, which combines computer science with the social sciences to study how people and society interact with information.
Things to do include a premier of 'Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer' in Willard Straight Theatre and a hands-on Twitter workshop. (June 15, 2009)
Entrepreneurship@Cornell banquet keynote speaker Shelly Porges '74, MPS '77, senior adviser at the Global Entrepreneurship Program, discussed the importance of entrepreneurship for global development.
Cornell researchers are testing vegetable crop leaves to see if they're nutrient deficient, and if they are, they are nourishing the crops via 'fertigation' – delivering nutrients via irrigation.
They are Brian Crane (chemistry and chemical biology), Gary Evans (design and environmental analysis and human development) and Natalie Mahowald (atmospheric sciences).
Six boys from Ithaca's DeWitt Middle School toured the Cornell campus to get a sense of the possibilities that a college education can offer them. (Nov. 14, 2012)
Robert R. Dyson, who earned his MBA at Cornell in 1974, has endowed the John S. Dyson Professorship in Marketing in Cornell's Undergraduate Business Program in honor of his brother, John, creator of the "I Love NY" tourism campaign and a 1965 Cornell graduate.
An activist seeking to remediate damage from Agent Orange said that the toxic herbicide's effects linger 35 years after being sprayed on Vietnam. (Nov. 21, 2011)