Cornell President Hunter Rawlings today issued a statement in response to recent events on campus involving articles published in the Cornell Review and the resultant protests.
Two Cornell faculty members have been selected as Woodrow Wilson Fellows. Lourdes Bener’a, professor of city and regional planning and of women's studies and director of the Latin American Studies Program, and Peter J. Katzenstein, the Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies and Comparative Politics.
Labor unions representing technicians in film, the performing arts and the broadcasting and recording industries face an uphill battle to survive the technological, regulatory and economic changes transforming the entertainment industry.
An interdisciplinary, regional conference entirely organized and conducted by Cornell graduate students will be held on campus May 7-9 in Room 401 Warren Hall. The Second Annual Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy.
Children in schools bombarded by frequent aircraft noise don't learn to read as well as children in quiet schools, Cornell researchers have confirmed. And they have discovered one major reason: kids tune out speech in the racket.
The Cornell Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers this weekend will finish construction on a pedestrian/bicycle bridge over Cascadilla Creek to link the Ithaca Sciencenter and the Tompkins County Cornell Cooperative Extension office, adjacent to Route 13.
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes will speak on "Novel Schemes for Artificial Muscle" when he delivers a Gemant Lecture on Monday, May 5, at 3:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, at Cornell.
An "education vacation" in the islands -- the Gulf of Maine's Isles of Shoals, in particular -- is offered to adults taking non-credit courses this summer at Shoals Marine Laboratory. Weekend and five-day courses are scheduled on Appledore Island by Cornell and the University of New Hampshire, which jointly operate Shoals Marine Laboratory.
Cornell's alumni body recently elected Judith C. Areen and Samuel C. Fleming to four-year terms on the Cornell Board of Trustees. They succeed Eleanor S. Applewhaite and J. Thomas Clark on the board effective July 1. Applewhaite and Clark are completing four-year terms as alumni elected trustees.
New York state voters are increasingly frustrated by gridlock in the two houses of the state legislature, an impasse that results in delayed legislation, late budgets and a seemingly never-ending refrain of raucous debate and recrimination. Is it time to change the whole system?
Representatives from a dozen agricultural universities and research facilities from around the world finished a three-day meeting April 11 at Cornell to hammer out details on an alliance to improve diets worldwide.
