Slope Radio, a new radio station produced by students at Cornell, is set to launch its inaugural broadcast via the Internet on Sept. 4.Shows will be aired on the station's Web site at http://sloperadio.com/, and operations are…
Cornell President David J. Skorton has been elected the incoming vice chairman of the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF). As vice chair, he will become the chair after a two-year term. Skorton was elected by BHEF's membership…
Cornell has once again been named one of "50 Best Colleges for African Americans" by Black Enterprise magazine.The university, which has been on the list every year since it was first published in 1999, was ranked 26th this year…
Two Cornell students garnered top honors in the first Collegiate Book-Collecting Championship, a national competition sponsored by Fine Books and Collections magazine. Daniel McKee and David Rando, who tied for first place in the…
The traditional sounds of chimes, orchestra and chorus will accompany the pageantry surrounding inauguration ceremonies for David Skorton - as well as jazz, steel drums, Latin, klezmer and electronic music.
The Cornell community welcomed new students with a communal outdoor meal Aug. 24 on the Arts Quad.Picnic on the Quad, a new Welcome Weekend event this year, brought hundreds of students, faculty and staff together for lunch on…
There are many fundamental differences between the common law in the United States and continental Europe's civil law. But, "the human tendency to treat foreign as different and then make the unwarranted logical jump and also…
Farah Hussain '05, a local youth and sustainability activist with a worldwide vision, believes that young people have what it takes to solve the world's most-pressing problems. "Some people only see youths' negative attributes,"…
Joel Perlman, BFA '65, was 14 when he decided to become a sculptor. He was a scrappy scholarship kid at Fieldston School in the Bronx then, hard hit by the recent, sudden death of his father from a heart attack at 47.To help…
Cornell University's Department of Food Science has selected Crowley Foods of Albany as the processor of the highest quality milk in New York for 2006.The selection is part of the New York State Milk Quality Improvement Program,…
The setting is the same as it has been for more than 1,200 Sundays -- a modest stage, some microphones, coffee brewing nearby and a small, engaged audience.
WVBR's "Bound For Glory," a beacon for folk-music lovers, is celebrating…
The National Staff Development and Training Association (NSDTA) has given its Quality Award for 2006 to the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) curriculum, which is part of the Residential Child Care Project in the Family Life…
