Cornell's English Ph.D. programs and seven of its graduate engineering fields are ranked in the top 10 in U.S. News and World Report's 2014 report on 'Best Graduate Schools.'
April will mark the second annual Sustainability Month on campus, with more than 30 public campus and community events related to sustainability activities at Cornell.
Events this week include Cornell Orchards' Apple Spectacular, a student-made film reflecting on service in Thailand; the Cornell Orchestras playing jazz with special guests; MFA students reading poetry and fiction; and lectures on law and technology, global child welfare and the Middle East.
Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, spoke about food and research on campus March 7.
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the president of Iceland, told a Cornell audience how his country remade itself from one of Europe’s poorest into one now financially and environmentally secure.
Peter M. Salino, operations manager in the Grounds Department within the Facilities Services unit of Cornell, is the new director of that department, succeeding Dennis Osika, who has retired. (Jan. 21, 2009)
Cornell is well-known for its Robert Trent Jones Golf Course, but it's also home to the Robison Disc Golf Course, where players try to 'ace' the nine-basket course on North Campus. (Sept. 6, 2012)
Physics major Eyvind Niklasson '17 has made both Google and Facebook’s lists of helpful “pentesters,” kinder, gentler hackers who have reported vulnerabilities in their systems.