Women make up the majority - 52.7 percent - of Cornell's incoming Class of 2016, a diverse group of 3,270 freshmen coming from 47 states and 46 countries. (Aug. 14, 2012)
Cornell hopes to expand its renewable energy portfolio as it benefits from the NY-Sun initiative, a series of large-scale, solar energy projects expected to add about 67 megawatts of solar electricity to the state.
This summer incoming first-year students, new transfer students and others in the Cornell community will be reading Julie Otsuka’s 2003 novel, “When the Emperor Was Divine,” Vice Provost Laura Brown announced.
The physicist is one of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 14 countries selected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. (April 29, 2010)
More than 300 stories or university statements that mentioned COVID-19 were posted on the Cornell Chronicle website in 2020; it was, without question, the story of the year. We look back at the past 12 months.
Events on campus include a Cornell Cinema benefit and dance party, a rare 17th-century opera, young ornithologists sharing their research and a University Lecture by Islam scholar Sherman Jackson.
Recent transfer student and horticulture enthusiast Justin Kondrat ’14 has led a project with the help of nearly 100 Cornellians to plant some 50,000 blooming flowers that spell out the word “rooted” in 10-foot letters on Libe Slope; the display will glow nightly until May 1.
Fourteen schools will visit Ithaca April 24-26 for the 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers Regional Conference, which features the concrete canoe and steel bridge competitions.
Although the Cornell men’s hockey team fell to Boston University at its biennial contest at Madison Square Garden Nov. 30, the sold-out crowd, including thousands of Cornellians, partied before and after the game.