Cornell has received two grants totaling $1 million to expand the John S. Knight Writing Program, which seeks to improve student writing and the teaching of writing through a variety of innovative techniques and programs. A $750,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will establish a national center for writing in the disciplines.
Artists, educators and authors will gather on the Cornell next month for a public symposium to discuss the teaching of creativity and the presence and import of the arts and artistic intelligence across the disciplines of the university.
Harold Tanner, a 1952 graduate of Cornell and president of Tanner & Co. Inc. of New York, was unanimously elected chairman of the university's Board of Trustees at its first meeting of 1997 in New York City on Saturday, Jan. 25.
The Cornell Board of Trustees, at its meeting in New York City Saturday, Jan. 25, approved a 1997-98 budget that calls for a 4.5 percent tuition increase for the endowed colleges.
Children who benefit from child support payments seem to fare better than those who obtain the same amount of money from welfare, according to a Cornell study. And when child support stems from an agreement between parents rather than a court-ordered one, the children do even better.
The one place in the Northeast most likely to have a white Christmas - Caribou, Maine - officially had but an inch of snow on the ground. It started the holiday at midnight with a high temperature of 44 degrees, not surprising since this was also Caribou's warmest December since the start of official records there in 1939, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center .
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings today issued the following statement in response to news reports that a prominent Cornell alumnus, Charles F. Feeney, and his family were the principals in the formation, in the early 1980s, of two significant international philanthropies, The Atlantic Foundation and The Atlantic Trust.
A $20 million gift to Cornell from an alumnus will launch major new instructional and research initiatives in science and engineering and provide state-of-the-art facilities in growing technologies for electronic and photonic devices, biotechnology and advanced materials processing.
Mini-grants worth up to $1,000 are available for Cornell student groups, faculty and staff members to develop prevention-education programs addressing violence and substance abuse on campus.
