Cornell's 2007 Solar Decathlon entry, now being built, features a freestanding 'light canopy' to support the house's equipment, 'green' screens and an adaptable sunroom. (May 1, 2007)
When Roger Ellis '73, DVM '77, saw that an international volunteer farmer-to-farmer program needed a veterinarian to travel to Siberia to assist with a surprising rise of tuberculosis in dairy cattle, he jumped at the chance. (November 30, 2005)
Cornell President Hunter R. Rawlings and his small delegation ended their mid-November whirlwind China trip with exchanges across the table and in a friendly table tennis game. (November 29, 2005)
Hania Kronfol of Toronto, Ontario, a senior government major in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell, has been named a junior fellow by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.
The cure for what ails the American method of electing a president is a dose of parliament, says Ted Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell. (June 25, 2008)
Michael I. Kotlikoff discusses his role as the university's chief academic officer, the strategic planning process he will lead for Cornell and how his experience as a dean has prepared him for this job.
Reaching across the Pacific Ocean with a friendly hand, Cornell President Hunter R. Rawlings formally signed an academic partnership Nov. 15 with Peking University. This puts the final Beijing piece of Cornell's new China and Asia-Pacific Studies program into place. (November 15, 2005)
Michael W. Crooke, chief executive of the outdoor clothing company Patagonia Inc. and its parent Lost Arrow Corp., will give a talk at Cornell April 24 at 5 p.m. in B-45 Warren Hall.
Rebecca Quinn Morgan HE '60, who with her husband has endowed the deanship of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell, will be given the inaugural Martha Van Rensselaer Vision Award by the Human Ecology Alumni Association on April 20. The award ceremony is a key event at the national celebration of the Cornell University Human Ecology Centennial at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in New York City.
Ithaca High School sophomores and juniors trekked across the Cornell campus for two days in March, visiting the Johnson Art Museum, the Cornell Ceramics Studio and the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS).