Low building quality negatively affects student achievement, and this is exacerbated by high student mobility; both conditions are more often found in low-income districts, reports a Cornell study. (Dec. 1, 2010)
The foundation led by Chuck Feeney '56 made the $350 million gift, the largest in the university's history. It originally was announced Dec. 16 as from an anonymous donor. (Dec. 20, 2011)
Cornell University is using a $3.8 million settlement from the Libyan government to establish an endowed professorship in memory of Kenneth J. Bissett, who died in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. (December 20, 2005)
One hundred years ago Hu Shih, Class of 1914, donated a collection of 300 Chinese books to Cornell Library to benefit future Chinese students' study. (Dec. 15, 2011)
Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine is using a new approach to teach some clinical procedures: self-paced training DVDs. The first focuses on peripheral nerve blocks in dogs. (Sept. 1, 2009)
Eswar S. Prasad, chief of the Financial Studies Division of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has been named the Tolani Senior Professor in International Trade Policy at Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life…
High school seniors from the metropolitan area and their parents got a look at Cornell admissions and campus life for minority students in New York City, Nov. 12. (Nov. 15, 2010)
Messages on making schools safer and healthier are going coast to coast starting Nov. 5, when Cornell students began a cross-country bus tour conducting outreach projects along the way. (Nov. 5, 2012)
President David Skorton delivered Cornell's 143rd commencement May 29, welcoming about 6,000 new graduates to the global Cornell family. (May 29, 2011)
Business, politics and economics play key roles in sustainable development, Cornell professors at a regional symposium of the National Academy of Engineering, May 16.