"Being talented and dedicated, one of you could be standing here in 2039 as the chairman or CEO of a major American company and looking back at the good old days in 2006," said Sharon L. Allen, the first woman chairman of…
Cornell was a dominant presence at the National Textile Center's 14th Annual Forum in Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 19-21. Lisa Staiano-Coico, the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of the College of Human Ecology, was the featured…
NEW YORK -- A capacity crowd filled the Weill Auditorium for a recent Career Pathways presentation, "Walking the Academic Road." A panel of junior faculty from the Weill Cornell Graduate School spoke with students at length about…
Students at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) are finding better ways to tackle intensive premedical courses, thanks to an extension of Cornell University's teaching assistant (TA) program to Doha.
Over the past…
The Cornell Art Faculty Exhibit at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art samples the creative output and traditional and nontraditional approaches of 15 faculty members, all of them working artists. Liz Emrich, a collections…
The stabbing of a visiting black Union College student allegedly by a white Cornell student on West Campus, says Cornell President Hunter R. Rawlings, "has had a galvanizing effect on all of us. ... This is an incident that makes…
Jog by Jupiter, saunter past Saturn and meander about Mercury: Get a walking tour of the solar system and let Bill Nye, the Science Guy, be your guide, on March 7 in downtown Ithaca. Nye will be making his last visit as a Cornell…
As genomics - the study of genes - continues to revolutionize the life sciences, Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine has announced the opening of a DNA bank, administered through its Department of Clinical Sciences.
The 56 county-based Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) associations are a vital part of Cornell's land-grant mission. They act as fingers reaching out from Cornell, providing information and services that may be the only…
If a Danish newspaper doesn't have the freedom to publish cartoons depicting Muhammad, should the TV cartoon show "South Park" also not be free to satirize Mormons? That was the question posed by Michael Shapiro, associate professor of communication at Cornell, in a panel discussion Feb. 21.
"What thoughts and images come to mind when you hear the words 'Islam' and 'Muslims?'" asked Omer Bajwa, a Ph.D. candidate in Cornell's Department of Near Eastern Studies, speaking on campus last week (Feb. 20). Far too many non…
