Four years before its sesquicentennial, Cornell is poised to expand its reach, enhance its academic prowess and extend its leadership, President David Skorton said in his State of the University Address Oct. 21. (Oct. 21, 2011)
For the nearly three weeks of the 2009 Solar Decathlon, Joe Manelski '56 offers his McLean, Va., house as a home away from home for Cornell's student team. (Oct. 15, 2009)
Since 1999 about 75 faculty and student projects that examine the technological, social, political and economic elements of sustainable agriculture have benefited from the Toward Sustainability Foundation. (March 4, 2009)
Kathy Luz Herrera was one of the first women to enter the apprenticeship program in 1988 and says it has been 'a great avenue for women and minorities to enter the skilled trades.' (Oct. 18, 2007)
Professor Emeritus Walter LaFeber pondered the true role of professors while reflecting on the late Carl Becker's (1873-1945) writings on the same topic at an Oct. 13 talk to students. (Oct. 18, 2010)
Stocking Hall will get a new four-story addition and a general facelift, with construction beginning next September, giving the Department of Food Science and the landmark Cornell Dairy Bar new homes. (Sept. 18, 2009)
Star players in the NBA make winning coaches, finds a study out of Cornell and the University of Warwick, England. The results indicate that experts in a field make the best leaders. (June 13, 2008)
Cornell University and seven other colleges and universities have received grants totaling $6.78 million from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to launch programs designed to help high-achieving, low-income community college…
William Donald Cooke, Cornell professor emeritus of chemical and chemical biology and a longtime university administrator, died Sept. 20 at his home in Ithaca. He was 89. (Sept. 26, 2007)
Lance Collins knows a thing or two about turbulence - literal and figurative - which should stand him in good stead as Cornell engineering's 13th dean. (Sept. 23, 2010)