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Summer research on island leads Cornell junior to prestigious honor

Last summer, Cornell junior Sui-Ling Evelyne Kuo lived the good life on Appledore Island, the 95-acre home of Shoals Marine Laboratory in the Gulf of Maine.

Cornell student is reported missing

Cornell University Police has issued a missing person's report on a male student who was last seen early Sunday morning, April 24. Daniel A. Pirfo, 19, from Washington, D.C., was reported missing by a resident adviser.

Weill Cornell medical college announces second $50 million challenge to advance its clinical mission

Sanford I. Weill, chairman of the Board of Overseers of the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell, and Dr. Antonio M. Gotto Jr., dean of the Medical College, announced today that the school will launch a second Challenge Match to help complete its $750 million capital campaign.

Two new vice provosts, Moody-Adams and Kresovich, are announced at Cornell

Cornell Provost Biddy Martin has announced that two distinguished vice provosts who inaugurated their positions will be stepping down and returning to the faculty, making way for two accomplished faculty members to step into those vice provost positions, effective July 1.

Architect Rem Koolhaas warns of the 'sloppy' and 'uncritical'

Internationally famed architect Rem Koolhaas spoke to an overflow crowd in Kennedy Hall's 600-seat David L. Call Alumni Auditorium on campus April 25. The 2000 winner of the Pritzker Prize -- often called the Nobel Prize of architecture -- talked about his views of the current state of architecture in general and also described, and showed images of, projects of his own. (April 26, 2005)

'Hotel Rwanda' hero offers lessons to halt future genocides

The hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, where Paul Rusesabagina sheltered 1,200 people in 1994 has the picturesque name Des Mille Collines -- French for 1,000 hills.

Tsunamis, ancient fires and criminal trials featured at undergraduate research forum

How do children influence their parents' eating habits? Can a polymer be used to deactivate chemical warfare agents? What are the differences in how jurors process information in criminal trials?

From Brown v. Board of Education to the new Africana Studies and Research Center -- a day of scholarly reflection and celebration

Rigorous scholarly reflection on vital matters of social consequence has been a hallmark of Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center's educational mission from the outset 35 years ago.

2005 Perkins Prize awarded to King Commemoration Committee; annual ceremony to be held April 29 in Willard Straight Hall

The 2005 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony at Cornell will be awarded to the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Committee during a ceremony and reception April 29.

Giant appetizer will serve as 'springboard' for Guinness world record

What do you get when you combine a bunch of crazy college kids and a giant spring roll? A possible Guinness world record, all in the name of charity.

Visiting South Korean experts on stem cell research stress the need for therapeutic cloning

Woo-Suk Hwang a professor at Seoul National University in South Korea, and his colleague Professor Seung Keun Kang spoke this week with Cornell faculty and students about their groundbreaking animal and human stem cell research.

Scholars to address intellectual history, cultural history and the influence of critical theory at April 29-30 conference

Distinguished scholars of both intellectual and cultural history will gather to discuss the current and future state of their fields in relation to leading-edge currents in critical theory during a Department of History conference.