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Water Adhesive Technology Offers Potential Superhero Abilities
February 4th, 2010Cornell researchers have created a technology that one day could allow humans to walk on walls –– without any radioactive spider bites. The palm-sized device uses the combined surface tension of a series of minute water droplets to create a strong adhesive force. Read More
Governor's Budget Chops Funding For Higher Education
February 3rd, 2010Constrained by a $13.7 billion budget deficit, the New York state government is looking to save money by cutting funding for several programs and departments at the University, according to the 2010-2011 executive budget sent by the governor to the state legislature for approval. The legislature will have until April 1 to pass the proposed budget. Read More
Students, Faculty Respond To Performing Arts Cuts
February 3rd, 2010About 30 students and several faculty members gathered in the Schwartz Center yesterday to discuss how Cornell’s performing arts program could survive in light of the potentially crippling budget cuts announced Monday. Read More
Appel Hours Sliced in Effort To Reduce Operating Costs
February 3rd, 2010With the beginning of the spring semester, Cornell Dining has changed its hours of operation at Robert Purcell Marketplace Eatery and Appel dining hall to increase efficiency and cut costs. Read More
S.A. Executive Board Deliberates Over Replacement Representative
February 3rd, 2010Upon the recent announcement of Olamide Williams’ resignation, the Student Assembly quickly set out to approve the appointment of a replacement representative. According to S.A. charter guidelines, the vacant seat should go to, “… the highest ranked non-winning candidate in the last election from the same constituency," which this year would be Andrew Brokman '11. Read More
Deadly Fish Virus in Upstate N.Y.
February 3rd, 2010Cornell researchers have confirmed reports that a deadly fish pathogen, viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus, has spread to locations in Lake Superior. First discovered in freshwater fish in Lake Ontario in 2005, this new development means that VHSV has spread to all of the Great Lakes and is posed to threaten the sport fishing industry. Read More
Theatre, Film and Dance Department Hit With Cuts
February 2nd, 2010Recent budget cuts by the College of Arts and Sciences could cause up to one-third of the Theatre, Film and Dance departments’ non-tenured faculty to be laid off, according to Leslie Morris, head of public relations for the Schwartz Center. Read More
New Higher Ed Budget to Affect Family Loans
February 2nd, 2010President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for the 2011 fiscal year, sent to Congress yesterday, contained several contentious reforms that pundits from both political parties agree will change the landscape of higher education in America. Students at Cornell and other wealthy universities will remain unaffected, however, according to Cornell’s Director of Financial Aid, Tom Keane. Read More
Cornell Students Bring Light to Kenya School
February 2nd, 2010It is sundown in the tiny, poverty-stricken town of Mbaka Oromo in Western Kenya, and the lights of a newly-renovated school are illuminating the mountainside on which the building is perched. A year prior, the school’s students would have been forced to make the trek back home once the sun had set, as the town had no source of electricity. Read More
Olamide Williams '10 Resigns, Student Assembly to Appoint Alternate Representative
February 2nd, 2010On Thursday, during the first Student Assembly meeting of the spring semester, S.A. President Rammy Salem ’10 announced that At-Large Representative Olamide Williams ’10, formerly the assembly’s executive vice president, has permanently resigned his seat on the S.A. Read More