Mary-Lynn Cummings, assistant dean for facilities and operational services in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been named to the newly created post of director of space planning for Cornell. (Feb. 6, 2008)
Cornell will soon adopt the Kuali Financial System, created 'by higher education, for higher education.' Cornell talent has contributed to this 'community source' software from its very beginning. (Feb. 15, 2011)
Events on campus include a Halloween party at Cornell Cinema, the Cornell University Chorus Twilight Concert, book talks, and a lecture by author and Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch '83.
Cornell Cooperative Extension is training Fort Drum soldiers in ways to help Afghan farmers, including how to fight wheat rust - dubbed the 'H1N1 of the wheat world.' (Feb. 14, 2011)
A New York tech campus would stimulate the city's economy as well as pose new academic and research opportunities for faculty and students based in Ithaca, say university leaders.
Investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered precisely how certain types of cancers spread to particular organs in the body, supporting the century-old "seed and soil" theory of metastasis.
John H. Foote ’74 and Joseph Thanhauser ’71 are spearheading a project to erect a bronze statue to pay tribute to the bear cubs who served as Cornell’s unofficial, original mascot, Touchdown.
Mike Cheng-Yu Lee, a graduate student in the field of music, placed second in a worldwide fortepiano contest, despite focal dystonia, a neurological movement disorder that affects his hand. (Aug. 26, 2011)
Ray Dalton, executive director of Cornell's Office of Minority Educational Affairs, was recently awarded the William H. Myers Multicultural Professional Service Award for his work in multicultural affairs at Cornell. (Jan. 24, 2008)