As in 2010, Cornell's Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management has been ranked No. 5 in Bloomberg Businessweek's annual list of best undergraduate business schools.
Events on campus this week include organ concerts in Sage; concerts in Bailey; lectures by economist David Card, Steven Zunes, Ph.D. '90, Nick Salvato and Hod Lipson; poetry readings; museum events. (March 10, 2011)
The Committee for the Advancement of Muslim Culture is this year's winner of the Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony. The prize was presented March 8. (March 9, 2011)
Cornell is creating three high-level positions to raise the priority given to concerns of underrepresented and minority students, restructuring some programs to provide greater coordination. (March 9, 2011)
President David Skorton delivered the keynote address, 'Humanities: In the National Interest,' at the annual membership meeting of the National Humanities Alliance in Washington, D.C. on March 7. (March 9, 2011)
Using a very fast oscilloscope, researchers have figured out how to quantify the strength of current-induced torque used to write information in memory devices called magnetic tunnel junctions. (March 9, 2011)
Educators and filmmakers Jackson Katz and Byron Hurt will talk masculinity and male violence at 'Man Up: Tough Talk About American Manhood,' a free community forum March 9. (March 8, 2011)
Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker pondered 'the stuff thought' March 4 in an Olin lecture. He said analyzing language offers a window into thought and human nature. (March 8, 2011)
The new library Animal Legends exhibition opened with a lecture by Vice Provost Laura Brown on 'Love, Paradise, and the Rise of the Animal in English Literature,' March 4. (March 8, 2011)
At the Capital Poetics: Poetry and the Economic conference March 4, scholars discussed the relation of poetry to the political economy. (March 8, 2011)
The Youth, Identities and Transnational Flows conference, March 3-5, featured performances and speakers on such topics as ethnic identities, urban conflict, human rights and immigration. (March 8, 2011)
At the annual meeting of the President's Council of Cornell Women, members heard about Cornell's global programs and the Language House, got career advice, networked and more. (March 8, 2011)
