The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) annual Circle of Excellence Awards has given bronze medals to two Cornell websites and a silver medal for alumni relations programs.

CASE is a worldwide competition that honors exemplary programs and activities in higher education in several areas of communications, alumni relations and fundraising.

Of the 89 entries in the Individual Sub-Websites category, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' (CALS) Green: Energy Conservation and Sustainability Initiative website http://green.cals.cornell.edu and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology website http://www.birds.cornell.edu were each awarded bronze medals. The ornithology lab's website was redesigned last year.

Also, in the Alumni Relations Programs -- Programming for Special Constituencies category, of which there were 11 entries, Cornell won a silver medal for its Cornell Silicon Valley, an alumni initiative that serves some 10,000 Cornellians in the Bay Area in California.

These awards are in addition to the gold medal that photographer Lindsay France won in Individual Photographs category.