Two Cornell faculty members are among this year's recipients of a Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering, the White House announced today (Tuesday, Oct. 24).
Cornell Police are still actively pursuing investigations into the sexual assault of an Asian female student that occurred Sept. 16, as well as two reports of harassment of Asian females that happened during the following week.
Geoffrey Coates, a Cornell University assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been awarded a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, designed to support young researchers.
Sister Helen Prejean, the author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the U.S., will give a public lecture in Statler Auditorium on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 8 p.m.
Members of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 26, for their joint annual meeting, which this year celebrates the 50th annual meeting of the council.
Robert B. Porter, professor of law and director of the Tribal Law and Government Center at the University of Kansas, will present a lecture, "Resolving Iroquois Land Claims," Monday, Oct. 23, at 4:30 p.m. in 290 Myron Taylor Hall.
Whether or not she wins New York state's hotly contested U.S. Senate seat in the upcoming November election, Hillary Rodham Clinton's historic campaign will be examined by scholars not only for its electoral outcome but for what her candidacy and commentary about her reveal about American culture and values.
Dominicana author Loida Maritza Pérez, a 1987 Cornell University alumna, is the keynote speaker at the Latino Studies Program's eighth annual Unity Dinner Friday, Oct. 20, at 5:30 p.m. in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.
A $1 million grant from Corning Inc. to Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management will enable the school to develop a total-immersion curriculum in "e-business" and other components of an extensive electronic business program.
