This feature highlights the academic life of the university. The stories are edited by Susan S. Lang. To suggest a story idea, e-mail ssl4@cornell.edu.

Oct. 9, 2009
Model U.N. debate helps students 'live' other languages
Instructors offer tips on teaching large lecture courses
Grants available to enhance teaching and learning

Aug. 28, 2009
Faculty learn to add diversity into classes
Cornell hosts science teachers for summer workshops
Summer students present 'Othello' in five languages

May 1, 2009
Biology undergrads do original research in class -- and then learn how to write it up
Africana Center introduces 17 new courses
Course on Transformative Action begins May 4

March 13, 2009
Library starts undergrad information project to get students beyond Google
New environmental major preparing to graduate its first group of students
New course explores alternative careers in the life sciences
Study the birds of spring

Jan. 30, 2009
Hotel and Johnson schools team to offer real-world sustainability course
Students create new concepts to help elderly in everyday life
Visual computing expert Tsuhan Chen leads School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mann Library expands access to rare beekeeping volumes

Nov. 14, 2008
Engineering teaching institute supports faculty with innovative classroom ideas
New Ph.D. combines ergonomics, environmental psychology, facility planning, design
Got cattle? Cornell does, and trains students to prepare them for market
High school students visit with women engineers at Cornell

Oct. 3, 2008
'Power of the Page' writing seminar explores print and American literature
Cornell's Adult University celebrates 40 years of education for alumni and others
Engineering students can now minor in business

Aug. 22, 2008
Cornell-initiated course promotes rice expertise for the developing world
Mann Library upgrades ag 'library in a box' for world's poorest countries
Cornell launches Center for Teaching Excellence
Policy analysis and management students now can customize their concentrations

May 9, 2008
To learn computer science, first-year students program robots
Cornell marketing students take on alum's wine for charity
Green energy: Alum teaches course on renewable fuel sources
Cornell schedules summer courses

April 4, 2008
Engineering teams create cutting-edge designs while honing entrepreneurial skills
New course on best practices for social change will study how Davids conquer Goliaths

Feb. 22, 2008
Pinstrup-Andersen pioneers a program to take issues of hunger and poverty to their global grassroots
Students' annual UN visit replaces lecture hall with global awareness

Jan. 18, 2008
Human Ecology students invent innovative products for seniors
International students form speakers bureau for area schools

Nov. 2, 2007
Students get a 'Second Life' in first 'metanomics' course
Cornell helps launch first academic program in social responsibility in apparel industry

Sept. 28, 2007
Student's animated video makes fractals fun and ends up on YouTube
200 New York teens explore Governors Island to learn about its trees, harbor -- and themselves

Aug. 17, 2007
Chinese educators, learning about U.S. education, share insights with Cornell and Ithaca colleagues
Why 'Thinking Like a Scientist' is relevant to kids

May 17, 2007
Science grad students become media savvy
Guess who's coming to dinner: 55 seniors dine at Becker House

April 5, 2007
Finding and fostering the entrepreneurial spirit in every college, every field and every stage of life
The alumni connection: Cornell Entrepreneur Network fosters links in Cornell's enterprising community

Feb. 22, 2007
Students discover that computer games are serious fun
New Ph.D. combines law, psychology and human development

Dec. 5, 2006
Co-op lets engineering students take real world for a test drive
NASA astronaut describes for students how to 'test to failure'

Oct. 19, 2006
Campus to Coast program fosters interest in marine science
Leaders are made, not born, as they learn to build teams, trust others and take risks

September 6, 2006
Urban Semester: Immersed in New York's diversity

June 13, 2006
Cornell opens doors for Emily Levitt to study malnutrition in Afghanistan
Cornell students have deep desire to use education to change lives of 600 children in rural China

March 16, 2006
Cornell becomes first in nation to offer Ph.D. in apparel design
Fashionistas in Ithaca include 'princesses,' 'hip-hops,' 'hipsters'

Feb. 8, 2006
Center for Learning and Teaching improves how students learn and instructors teach

Dec. 7, 2005
Intelligent design? No smart engineer designed our bodies, Sherman says
Cornell students serve as mentors to build virtual worlds

Nov. 9, 2005
Agriculture in Developing Nations course takes students to India
CU undergrads given extraordinary research opportunities

Oct. 12, 2005
Students go around the world in 8 days with Shawkat Toorawa
New IS major is not just about computers -- it's about people

Sept. 8, 2005
Any field, any study? How about a major in grape growing and winemaking
Giraffe dung and lions devouring zebras are part of new course that takes students to the African bush

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