The 2010 Perkins Prize for interracial harmony and understanding went to the Cornell Farmworker Program. Cornell IthaQatar Student Ambassadors and Cornell Urban Mentor Initiative received honorable mentions. (April 29, 2010)
The four seed grants and four small grants were awarded to promote research on foreign policy and international development as well as international studies in general.
Cornell University's undergraduate business program in the Department of Applied Economics and Management (AEM) was accredited Jan. 9 by AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The course becomes only the second general undergraduate business program in the Ivy League, after the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, to earn accreditation. AEM is a department within Cornell's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Accreditation provides recognition of the content and quality of its business program. The designation means that a peer group of scholars has examined the undergraduate business program in AEM and has approved it. (January 18, 2002)
This summer, students in Cornell's new Archaeology Field School at Shoals Marine Lab, Cornell's marine field station, discovered the first prehistoric archaeological site in the Isles of Shoals. (Aug. 27, 2009)
Cornell is conducting a comprehensive survey of its neighbors to learn more about their experiences and concerns regarding the white-tailed deer population in and around campus.
Events this week include Christmas Vespers in Sage Chapel, NASA's Dava Newman on plans to explore Mars, dance at the Schwartz Center, a Student Sustainability Summit and ways to survive study break.
N.Y. Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli kicked off a workshop of the Local Government Leadership Institute on campus, Aug. 13, aimed at helping local governments deliver services at a lower cost to their constituents. (Aug. 18, 2009)
Graduate programs in computer science, chemistry, engineering and physics are among the nation's top 10, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2011 rankings. (April 15, 2010)
Cornell and the City University of Hong Kong have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish terms of a collaboration to create the first veterinary medicine academic program in Hong Kong. (April 15, 2010)