The groundbreaking ceremony for the Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory in Portland, N.Y., will take place Oct. 29 at the site of the new lab in Chautauqua County at 1 p.m. (Oct. 22, 2007)
'I believe in God, only I spell it nature,' said author Diane Ackerman, Ph.D. '97. She spoke Sept. 2, kicking off Sage Chapel's new fall series, Sage Wednesdays, held Wednesdays at 12:15 p.m. (Sept. 8, 2009)
A company that uses Cornell-developed technology to create low-power, long-lasting batteries has received a $2.2 million boost from the federal government. (May 4, 2010)
A campus organization at Cornell University that promotes and celebrates the multi-racial experience at the university and in the Ithaca community will be the recipient of the 2002 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony. The group BLEND (Bi-/Multiracial Lineages, Ethnicities, and Nationalities Discussion) and its founder and president, Cornell senior Tamika Lewis, will be presented with the eighth-annual Perkins Prize, including an award of $5,000, by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings during a ceremony Tuesday, April 9, at 4:15 p.m. in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall on campus. (April 3, 2002)
Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi, two influential architects who have made their marks designing urban parks and cities, will deliver the 1997 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lectures at Cornell.
Cornell computer scientists have developed a new way to send a 'non-malleable' message - one that cannot be altered by a third party - over a computer network. (Dec. 10, 2012)