$50 New York City bus trips available on upcoming dates

NYC discounted round-trip tickets are now available to Cornell faculty, staff and their guests, March 10, April 14, May 5 and June 2, through Cornell Recreation Connection and Swarthout Coaches.

Renowned poet Anne Carson leads workshop on collaboration

A.D. White Professor-at-Large Anne Carson led workshops on collaboration, lectured and performed and worked with students the week of Feb. 13 while on campus.

Things to Do, Feb. 17-24

Events this week include physicist Kathy Selby at the Light in Winter Festival, old-time duo The Pearly Snaps, William Finn's musical 'Elegies' and fiction writer Edwidge Danticat.

Assemblies Update, Week of Feb. 13

An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly. (Feb. 16, 2012)

NYC tech campus top leadership team named

Dan Huttenlocher has been named Cornell vice provost and dean of the NYC tech campus; Cathy Dove has been named vice president; and Technion's Craig Gotsman will lead the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute.

Playing with little ones brings child development to life

Big Red Buddies is a new program that places Cornell students at the Cornell Child Care Center to read to and play with the children - and to learn and be inspired.

A neuroscientific odyssey into how we 'remember the future'

In 'The Happiness of Pursuit,' psychology professor Shimon Edelman offers an explanation of how we process our world and the 'elbow room' in which we can chase happiness.

BREAD grant funds research to tackle plant viral diseases

A team of international researchers is working to tackle the global problem of plant viral diseases that are spread by insects, thanks to close to $1 million in funding.

New York soybean growth gets a boost from climate change

Preliminary research suggests that soybeans, usually a more southern crop, can be grown successfully in New York as a result of climate change. Field trials are underway.