The Exxon Education Foundation, which donates $3 for every $1 Exxon employees and retirees contribute to colleges and universities, recently presented Cornell with a check for $270,267.
Provost Kent Fuchs outlined plans for fewer faculty, more students and a five-year strategic plan that will tie together goals for the institution, academics and the budget.
To determine the best management practices to reduce the impact of phosphorus in the Cannonsville watershed, two Cornell professors have received a $1 million grant from the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Merrill Scholars' high school teachers and Cornell faculty members were recognized by President David Skorton and the college deans at a luncheon and ceremony at Willard Straight Hall May 20.
There is a 100 percent chance of sand all along the beaches of Atlantic City, N.J., Christmas morning, but only an 8 percent chance of snow. If you are looking for a White Christmas in the northeastern United States -- or trying to avoid one -- the top spots are the usual suspects: Pinkham Notch, N.H., (with nearly 100 percent chance of snow), Caribou, Maine, and, in New York state, Boonville and Old Forge, according to Keith Eggleston, senior climatologist with Cornell University's Northeast Regional Climate Center A lower probability of snow -- although still at a high 71 percent -- is forecast for Syracuse, N.Y., and Portland, Maine. (December 17, 2004)
A self-driving car created by Cornell students successfully navigated 55 miles of city traffic in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, one of only six cars out of 35 entrants to succeed. (Nov. 7, 2007)
Hand Buzz Spector a book, and there's a good chance he'll destroy it. Read a profile of the Cornell art professor and art department chair, who has meticulously torn the pages of hundreds of books to create cascading images within their bindings.
The outpouring of emotion following Princess Diana's untimely death shows, better than any other recent event, how the way we publicly mourn has changed, says Cornell faculty member Gail Holst-Warhaft.
Events on campus this week include an outdoor gear sale, a reception for Exit Saigon, women's ice hockey, orchestral and jazz performances in Bailey Hall, and the Chorus and Glee Club in Sage Chapel. (Dec. 2, 2010)
In such sports as basketball and baseball, U.S. national teams are the perennial "overdogs," invariably liked by Americans and hated by the rest of the world. But in soccer, the world's most popular spectator sport, the U.S. Men…