The Cornell campus is facing a winter of challenge as energy costs soar. Over the next few weeks, Chronicle Online will be presenting stories showing the extent of rising costs and how the Cornell community can help to keep them under control. (November 16, 2005)
With millions of orphans in Africa, more are becoming the heads of their own households at very tender ages. As such, they turn to other children for help three times more often than to other sources, finds Cornell doctoral candidate Mónica Ruiz-Casares, who studied child-headed households in Namibia. (November 14, 2005)
Hunter R. Rawlings III announced today his intention to retire from the presidency on June 30, 2003, and to assume a full-time professorship thereafter in the university's Department of Classics.
Proposals from three local agencies and programs have been chosen to receive the Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation. This is the fourth year of the award. The winners of award funding for 1997 are the Partnership, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County and Cornell's Department of Natural Resources.
A new scholarship program funded with a $5 million gift from the Dyson Foundation will soon benefit top students in the Undergraduate Business Program in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. (Feb. 1, 2007)
Cornell animal scientists may have a way to help rebuild populations of endangered mammalian species, now that they have succeeded in the first live births by non-surgical embryo collection and transfer in domestic ferrets.
Rob Ryan, founder of Ascend Communications and Entrepreneur America, will be honored by Cornell University, Sept. 26 and 27, as Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year for 2002.
Members of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council will arrive on campus Oct. 7, for Cornell's annual Trustee/Council Weekend.
Medical science and business skill are often perceived as being as vastly different as Manhattan gridlock and Ithaca gorges. A new joint-degree, cross-campus program is set upon bridging these worlds.
A conversation with sociology professor and vice provost David R. Harris, who has taken on significant leadership roles at Cornell since joining the faculty in 2003.