Cornell Graduation Weekend, May 29-30, includes a host of events, including Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House, speaking at Convocation on May 29, and President David Skorton at Commencement, May 30. (May 12, 2010)
Engaged Cornell has awarded its first Engaged Graduate Student Grants to 10 doctoral students, who are working with community and commercial partners on research projects for their dissertations.
Lazarus Lynch of NYC's Food and Finance High School, a Cornell partner school, is the first New York 4-H student to present at the Global Youth Institute hosted by the World Food Prize Foundation. (Dec. 3, 2010)
Allmon, the first recipient of the Hunter R. Rawlings III Professor of Paleontology, has been teaching at Cornell for the past 15 years as an adjunct associate professor. (May 6, 2008)
As participants in the Leading Cornell program, 17 staff members identified as 'high-potential' review Reimagining Cornell and the strategic plan and give recommendations to President Skorton. (June 13, 2011)
Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) has signed a memorandum of understanding with three British universities to cooperate on research focused on rural change and policy in North America and Europe…
Such activities as visiting museums and zoos and watching science documentaries significantly contribute to scientific literacy, according to a new report from the National Research Council. (Jan. 20, 2009)
New research offers a clue into the underlying causes of atherosclerosis in terms of how the cells that line the blood vessels, called endothelial cells, behave as the vessels stiffen with age. (Dec. 7, 2011)
Elaine Ayres '75, deputy chief of the Lab for Informatics Development at the National Institutes of Health, spoke to nutrition students about how technology has revolutionized dietetics. (April 30, 2010)