Tompkins County received a $2.8-million grant to improve emergency communication between local responders and outside agencies from the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Wednesday.

Weill Cornell Medical College recently received a $287,000 grant from New York City, that will fund improvements in its ophthalmology services — medicine for eye diseases — geared toward diabetic patients.

Campus police vehicles conducted a special traffic enforcement campaign on Cornell’s campus, as well as its surrounding roads and streets from April 24 to 27.

The National Science Foundation will award three million dollars to Cornell’s Institute of Social and Economic Research and Labor and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations’ Labor Dynamic Institute over the next five years to improve the Census Bureau’s publication and organization of data. 

Cornell was awarded a grant to help develop the local wine industry.

Cornell will help develop a training program for teachers on how to deliver a curriculum that promotes the development of bioenergy and bio-based products to students. 

Google is giving a team of Cornell researchers $800 K to try to make internet social interactions more representative of real life.

The European Commission was recently awarded a $125,000 grant to the Cornell Institute for European Studies, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the New York State Center for Rural Schools.

Two budding Cornell alumni writers were awarded prestigious grants for their most recent literary works.

Dr. Robin Hadlock Seeley, a senior research associate at the Cornell Shoals Lab, was awarded a $10,000 grant that she plans to use to help spread awareness about environmental issues.