What is RSS?

RSS, short for Really Simple Syndication, is an easy way for websites to publish up to date content to a wide audience. Our RSS feeds always contain the latest news from the Cornell alumni community and events from the Alumni Events Calendar.

There are many ways to read an RSS feed. Websites such as Google and Yahoo! allow you to create a personalized home page and add you own RSS feeds. Modern web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer 7.0, and Safari allow you to read RSS feeds through your bookmarks. Additionally, there are software packages such as NewsGator and Google Reader designed to read RSS feeds.

RSS feeds can also be used to generate dynamic web content. If you want your site to always contain up to date news without having to manually update it, RSS feeds are the answer!

Example Output
This is what your users will see. You can customize the output to show any number of recent items, toggle the descriptions on and off, etc.

• Study examines link between religion and votes
  How Americans vote is strongly linked to their religious identities, but it is not an independent influence that transcends race, socioeconomic class and gender, reports a new study.
• Visiting professor Kakabadze wins top literary honor
  Cornell writer-in-residence and visiting professor in the Department of Government Irakli Kakabadze was awarded the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award 2009 in The Hague, Nov. 18.
• Skorton surprised by 60th birthday celebration
  More than 100 students, staff and senior administrators joined Professor Robin L. Davisson, Nov. 23, to surprise President David J. Skorton with wishes for a happy 60th birthday.

Finding an RSS feed for your site

• View RSS feeds for alumni news, events, and other Cornell-related topics.