Cornell will serve as one of the viewing sites for the 17th annual World Food Day teleconference, "Poverty and Hunger: The Tragic Link," featuring a conversation with Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Cesar Munera, 18, a Cornell University freshman, of Stamford, Conn., is in Cayuga Medical Center in critical condition following a fall from the window of his campus room in Mary Donlon Hall, Friday, Oct. 6. Cornell Police is investigating the incident.
Psychotherapist Alyce Faye Cleese will deliver a lecture co-sponsored by the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center and the Family Life Development Center at Cornell on Oct. 13, noon-1 p.m. at the Faculty Commons, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
Actor-comedian-writer John Cleese will make his second appearance at Cornell University in his role as an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large and will present a screening of Monty Python's "Life of Brian" followed by a public lecture Friday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall.
Cornell University appointed the principal officers for eCornell, the university's new distance learning subsidiary, according to an announcement by Peter C. Meinig, chairman of the board of directors of eCornell.
On Oct 6, following a month-long investigation into an alleged assault in the parking lot of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at 109 McGraw Place, Cornell Police arrested a Cornell student on a charge of second-degree assault, a class D felony.
New York's northern tier and the northern parts of New England could see snow on Saturday and Sunday. But the wet white stuff may not accumulate enough to qualify as the earliest snow in the region, according to climatologists at Cornell's Northeast Regional Climate Center.
A celebration is in order: Thirty years ago, the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University opened its doors, ushering in a new era in higher education for black students and scholars. The center's creation remains one of the remarkable, lasting accomplishments of the Black Power struggle of the 1960s and 1970s.
