Cornell astronomer Yervant Terzian received a Gold Medal, the highest honor from the Armenian government's Ministry of Science and Education, in Yerevan, Armenia Sept. 17. (Oct. 7, 2008)
The Cornell Program for Healthy Living offers lower premiums and out-of-pocket costs than other endowed health programs and provides more incentives to work toward a healthy lifestyle. (Nov. 4, 2010)
The Proskauer Rose Employment and Labor Law Assistant Professorship has been established for an ILR assistant professor who engages in scholarly work in conflict resolution and collective bargaining. (Nov. 3, 2010)
Fiction writers Lydia Peelle '00 and Rattawut Lapcharoensap '01 are winners of 2010 Whiting Writers' Awards, a prestigious $50,000 award given to up-and-coming writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. (Nov. 2, 2010)
Cornell Cinema celebrates its 45th anniversary this year, with 'A Black & White Ball' as this year's Elegant Winter Party benefit event, March 21 in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.
Events on campus this week include a gender-reversed Gilbert and Sullivan play, Renaissance and compost fairs, and talks on building healthy housing and legal responses to catastrophic events.
On Nov. 17, Barrett Keene, Ph.D. '13, finished walking from Miami to San Francisco to raise funds for school uniforms for international orphans. (Dec. 6, 2012)
Jason Kats '10 gave his friend, Sam Scott '10, an unusual wedding gift: He endowed the first fund ever in the American Indian Program in honor of Scott and his bride. (Dec. 6, 2012)
Members of Cornell NYC Tech's inaugural class were all attracted to the program's startup feel, and they all wanted to take part in a trailblazing master's degree program.
Graduate student Semagn Kolech will expand sustainable farming in Ethiopia, turning it from a place where it's hard to grow sustainable crops to a place where farming flourishes.