Close to 150 faculty, staff and students attended the June 26 opening of the East Campus Research Facility, which promises to increase the quality of live-animal research done at Cornell across various life science disciplines. (June 27, 2007)
When hundreds of search-and-rescue dogs and their handlers showed up at the site of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center collapse, not far behind were teams of veterinarians and veterinary technicians.
Cornell's American Indian Program is offering its students a chance to participate in an upcoming United Nations forum on indigenous issues. The program also has strengthened support for students and scholars. (March 25, 2009)
At a June 13 press conference in New York City, Cornell announced $450 million in campaign gifts for the medical college, and life sciences and intercampus research. Joan and Sanford Weill's $300 million is largest gift in Cornell history. (June 13, 2007)
Weill Cornell has partnered with the Touch Foundation and Sanford Weill to train doctors in Tanzania in an effort to alleviate the health-care crisis gripping that country. (Jan. 25, 2008)
Organized by Modesto Quiroga, Cornell’s Cosmopolitan Club first met Nov. 10, 1904, in Barnes Hall, with 60 students attending. For the next five decades, the Cosmopolitan Club fostered international awareness and elevated peaceful thoughts.
Last spring, food science major Maddie Parish ’17 and other members of her team in the capstone course Food Science 4000 helped a food producer solve a critical production challenge: Microbial spoilage was occurring soon after packaging of the ready-to-eat sesame product.
The U.S. Census Bureau could improve the quality of its population estimates by working more closely with a partnership of local, state and federal officials, Warren Brown, a leading Cornell demographer, testified to a U.S. House…
The warm late summer afternoon graced the inauguration ceremony today, and the guest speakers were likewise gracious in their warm regard for Cornell President David J. Skorton.Serving as a master of ceremonies, Cornell Board of…
Kate Light, 2004 visiting writer in the Cornell University Department of English, will give a poetry reading Wednesday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium at 3330 Carol Tatkon Center on North Campus. The reading is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow. Light is the author of The Laws of Falling Bodies, winner of the 1997 Nicholas Roerich Prize from Story Line Press, Open Slowly (Zoo Press, 2003) and Oceanophony, a full-length concert collaboration with composer Bruce Adolphe. (March 5, 2004)