Five students working with community partners on projects to strengthen the local community were honored with Robert S. Smith Awards for Community Progress and Innovation to carry out their proposals.
Insectapalooza 2009 on Oct. 3 featured an arthropod zoo, live butterfly house, tours of the world-famous Cornell Insect Collection and more. (Oct. 5, 2009)
Andrew Landers, a pesticide application engineer at NYSAES, is part of a $3.9 million USDA-funded project to develop, test and evaluate a fleet of autonomous tractors designed for precision agriculture applications. (Feb. 3, 2009)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Cornell will serve as one of the viewing sites for the 17th annual World Food Day teleconference, "Poverty and Hunger: The Tragic Link," featuring a conversation with Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics.