New York Gov. David Paterson announced Oct. 10 that he has signed a bill into law creating the New York State Center for Rural Schools to be operated by Cornell to improve rural schools and their communities. (Oct. 15, 2008)
Cornell's Survey Research Institute is conducting an unprecedented survey of U.S. college students at Cornell and in four 'swing' states about the 2008 presidential election. (Oct. 13, 2008)
The new Cornell Center for Behavior Intervention Development in New York City aims to cut obesity and obesity-related deaths in the city's black and Latino New Yorkers.
The CATALYST Academy at Cornell will host a one-week summer program to engage underrepresented minority high school students in science and engineering. (June 25, 2009)
Agroforestry experts are encouraging farmers to get into fungi, particularly shiitake and lion's mane mushrooms. Camp Mushroom at the Arnot Teaching and Research Forest, April 13-14, will show them how.
Although Harvard Professor Stephen Walt is a supporter of President Obama, he said his foreign policies are 'doomed to fail.' Walt spoke on campus Sept. 16. (Sept. 20, 2010)
Reinforcing its place in the scientific community, the arXiv repository at Cornell University Library reached a new milestone in October 2008 - half a million e-print postings. (Oct. 8, 2008)
The dean and four professors from the Cornell Law School will attend four conferences in Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong later this month as part of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture. (Oct. 7, 2008)
Hugh Price recently returned from a CNFA Farmer-to-Farmer volunteer assignment to Malawi, where he worked with farmers, exporters and entrepreneurs to assess the country's horticulture industry. (June 19, 2009)