On Aug. 21, at 3:30 p.m., more than 3,500 first-year and transfer students are scheduled to gather in Barton Hall for an interactive faculty presentation on Chinua Achebe's masterpiece 'Things Fall Apart.'
Carl L. Becker House, the second of five 'living and learning' houses in Cornell's West Campus Residential Initiative, is opening a year ahead of schedule, Aug. 19.
Achieving genuine diversity -- both of race and class -- remains one of the major challenges in the field of higher education in the 21st century. That challenge was addressed from a variety of perspectives during a powerhouse symposium in July that featured five current and former university presidents and a Stanford scholar. (Aug. 11, 2005)
Cornell University's FMS summer fellows build 'tram lines across the globe' following a two-week seminar, "Feminist Identities, Global Struggles," and four symposia focused on diversity of gender, income, ethnicity and disability, July 25-Aug. 5. (Aug. 11, 2005)
Cornell researchers will formally present new audio evidence of ivory-billed woodpeckers Aug. 24 at the 123rd American Ornithologists Union meeting in Santa Barbara, Calif.
A moderate drought has been declared for the area from the Finger Lakes region to Buffalo, N.Y., down to north-central Pennsylvania, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Three graduate students are among 16 students at U.S. universities to receive grants as Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research. They are Katherine Mills, Dora Sugar and Elena Bondareva.
Before leaving for their internships, students in the Engineering Co-op program at Cornell attended a banquet where they listened to Robert Shutt of RASolutions give business dining etiquette advice.
The Tolani Shipping Co. has established the Tolani Senior Professorship in International Trade Policy at Cornell. The professorship honors alumnus Nandlal P. Tolani.
Francille M. Firebaugh, professor and dean emerita of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell, has retired after more than five years as vice provost for land grant affairs and special assistant to the president, as of June 30, 2005. Francille Firebaugh retires as vice provost for land grant affairs
Twenty-six undergraduate and 10 graduate Cornell Urban Scholars Program students took part in an eight-week paid internship this summer at 32 organizations, among them some of the city's most innovative nonprofits.