In the weeks to come, Cornell may seem even more cosmopolitan than usual. International Festival is upon us, this year with the theme "United Colors of Cornell."
In the year to come, a bevy of Cornell's best and brightest will study not high above Cayuga's waters, but along the Isis -- as the River Thames is known in Oxford, England. Just last December, three Cornell students won prestigious Rhodes and Marshall scholarships for study in Oxford.
Workplace and ergonomic specialists from Cornell will be available statewide via a satellite video conference on April 29 through Cornell Cooperative Extension to address issues relating to workplace safety and efficiency.
Yervant Terzian, the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences and chairman of the astronomy department at Cornell, received an honorary doctor of science degree from the University of Thessaloniki in Greece.
Olive Tjaden, a pioneering architect who supervised the design of more than 400 homes from the 1920s to the 1940s in Garden City, Long Island, including many of that community's grand mansions, died.
The Ward Laboratory at Cornell, which houses a small-scale nuclear reactor for research and teaching, is now the Ward Center for Nuclear Sciences, a campuswide center.
The Shimon Peres lecture at Cornell, scheduled for April 30, has been canceled. The Cornell University Program Board, sponsor of the event, has been informed by Peres' speaking agency that the cancellation is due to political developments in Israe.
Norman R. Scott, vice president for research and advanced studies at Cornell, today (March 28) issued the following statement upon receiving news that Cornell had not been successful in the latest round of supercomputing competition sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Infrared measurements of Comet Hale-Bopp by Cornell and NASA investigators are yielding valuable clues about the makeup of the celestial visitor and, perhaps, the origins of the solar system.
The Cornell lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is planning a broad range of cultural and educational programs throughout 'Gaypril.'
