Dan Kindlon, 1981 Cornell Ph.D. and co-author of the best-selling book Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys, will give a talk on the Cornell campus at noon Monday, April 23, in the Faculty Commons of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
Vicious videos, a subculture of adolescent terrorism and myths about adolescence. These are a few of the factors that contributed to the tragic Columbine shootings on April 20 two years ago. On this anniversary, we have lessons to learn from those devastating shootings, says adolescent violence expert James Garbarino at Cornell.
The Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets in Manhattan on April 19, at 11:30 a.m. at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St.
Three Cornell undergraduates, all juniors in the College of Arts and Sciences, are winners of the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for science and mathematics.
Harold D. Craft Jr., vice president for administration and chief financial officer at Cornell University, tonight (April 17, 2001) issued a statement affirming the university's commitment to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gasses:
Lee Teng-hui, former president of Taiwan, is planning to travel to Cornell, where he earned his Ph.D. in agricultural economics in 1968, on a personal visit in early May to see his granddaughter, a Cornell student, and to meet with students and faculty at his alma mater. Lee's visit to Cornell is planned for May 2-4. No public speeches or events are anticipated.
Warren Rudman, former U.S. senator from New Hampshire, will deliver the inaugural Ben and Rhoda Belnick Fund for Government Studies Lecture Thursday, April 26, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell.
The 2001 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony at Cornell will be awarded to the Cornell Interactive Theatre Ensemble. The award, carrying a $5,000 cash prize, was created and endowed seven years ago by Cornell alumnus and trustee Thomas W. Jones.
A collaborative workshop drawing from the disciplines of art, science, and computing will be held April 20 and 21 to launch Cornell Library's sponsorship of the Internet art journal Ctheory Multimedia , a semi-annual collection of electronic art and theory to be published this spring.
Celebrated poet Ruth Stone will read from her works at Cornell for the Creative Writing Program's biannual Chasen Poetry Reading Thursday, April 19, at 4 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
Robert S. Langer, chairman of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's science board, the federal agency's highest advisory panel, will deliver the 2001 Julian C. Smith Lectures in the School of Chemical Engineering at Cornell Monday, April 23, and Tuesday, April 24.
It's a student takeover of the most welcome variety -- the annual fete called Hotel Ezra Cornell on the Cornell campus. On Friday, April 20, Statler Hotel managers will hand over the ceremonial key to the on-campus facility to directors, and for the rest of the weekend all hotel services and events will be handled by more than 400 student.
