Engaged Cornell - a groundbreaking, $150 million, 10-year initiative to establish community engagement and real-world learning experiences as the hallmark of the Cornell undergraduate experience - was launched Oct. 6.
Artificial tissues with an embedded vascular system and a skull base sealer were two Cornell student inventions honored as finalists in the 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition in Chicago, Oct. 18-20. (Oct. 21, 2009)
Assistant professor of English Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon has been named a finalist for a 2009 National Book Award in poetry for her recent collection 'Open Interval.' (Oct. 19, 2009)
The Campus Savings and Efficiencies Committee says that improving efficiency in e-SHOP as well as in printing and energy use will be among the university's first cost-saving efforts. (Feb. 16, 2009)
Author and illustrator Bente Starcke King will demonstrate botanical drawing and watercolor techniques and sign copies of her new book, Beautiful Botanicals in the Cornell Plantations Garden Gift Shop on campus.
More Cornellians live in the Northeast corridor than anywhere else in the world. The Division of Alumni Affairs and Development is expanding its New York City focus to better reach them. (May 26, 2010)
Jesse Horn, J.D. '10, always loved being an advocate for others, and he had a particularly compelling reason for recognizing the work of advocates before him. (May 26, 2010)
Cornell will celebrate the achievements of physicist Watt W. Webb, June 16. Webb is co-inventor of such breakthrough imaging technologies as multiphoton microscopy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. (May 21, 2008)
Events this week include classical and jazz concerts, a PBS film on deer at Plantations, a German studies conference and an exhibition, open house and film for May Day.
Thomas J. Burr, Richard Durrett, Dexter Kozen, Sally McConnell-Ginet and John C. Schimenti have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (Feb. 5, 2009)