Muslims in the United States need to build a common culture that doesn't lead to broken psyches, said scholar Umar Faruq Abd-Allah, at an Islam Awareness Week lecture, April 13. (April 17, 2007)
Speaking in Goldwin Smith Hall, April 12, Stanford's Adrienne Mayor presented a lecture on chemical and biological warfare in cultures dating to the Sumerians and Hittites, circa 1700 B.C. (April 17, 2007)
Blasting the media as an 'engine of falsification,' feminist columnist Katha Pollitt spoke her mind April 11 in a lecture at Carl Becker House. (April 17, 2007)
It's not a shortage of fuel that is pushing the price of gas toward $3 per gallon again in New York, but U.S. public policy, said John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil, speaking on campus April 11. (April 17, 2007)
Jonathan Culler, the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, has been appointed a member of the board of directors of the New York State Council for the Humanities. (April 17, 2007)
President David Skorton has issued a statement in response to the April 16 tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, and he has announced a Sage Chapel remembrance scheduled for April 19. (April 17, 2007)
Cornell researchers believe that the rediscovery of New York state's official insect, the nine-spotted lady beetle, promises a brighter future for this rare species. (April 17, 2007)
The lobby of the Johnson Museum thrummed in anticipation April 12 as a dozen poets and an audience of 50 gathered for a poetry slam, a quasi-competitive event whose real purpose is to share the enjoyment of performing poetry. (April 16, 2007)
Cornell's concrete canoe sundered, but the steel bridge team placed second in aesthetics at the annual ASCE student competition that featured 11 regional schools, April 13-14. (April 16, 2007)
The Cornell community will fete Cornell's entrepreneurial spirit during a two-day event, April 19-20, featuring five symposia, a dinner honoring the Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2007, a resource expo and a networking event. (April 13, 2007)
Twenty-three teams of student investigators from East Side Middle School displayed science projects on March 20 for the Cornell Science Challenge Fair, a community education program that trains seventh-graders in the scientific method. (April 13, 2007)
