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.

• Gordon Sander '72 views Cornell then and now in photo exhibit
  Capturing Cornell moments, from the silly to the sublime, over the past 40 years is the focus of 'The Cornell Zone: 1968-2008,' a photography exhibition by Gordon F. Sander '72, on view May 16-Sept. 15.
• Faculty, staff, student, alumni members elected to board of trustees
  Professor Rosemary Avery has been elected a faculty trustee; Beth McKinney '82, director of the Wellness Program, is Cornell's employee trustee; graduate student Michael Walsh is the student trustee; and Elizabeth J. Altman '88 and Ronni S. Chernoff '67 were elected by the alumni as alumni trustees.
• 'Farm kid from Wisconsin' fights bugs with bugs
  Mike Hoffmann, director of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station, oversees $5.1 million in research projects and helps create a 'culture of sustainability' on campus.

Finding an RSS feed for your site

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