Harvey Klein, the William S. Paley Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and physician to recent Cornell presidents, offered a prescription to the Cornell Presidential Search Subcommittee on Sept. 7.
Elie Wiesel will speak in Bailey Hall on the campus Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. Imprisoned in the Nazi death camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald at age 15, Wiesel survived to write about the horrific experience in such books as Night.
In its newly published strategic plan, Cornell University is positioning itself as 'the exemplary, comprehensive research university' of the 21st century. (May 15, 2008)
The 2005-06 search for the ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas' 550,000-acre Big Woods has officially ended without any conclusive new evidence of the elusive bird's existence. But search crews remain optimistic about next season…
Cynthia McKinney, who served as the first African-American woman from the state of Georgia to be elected to the U.S. Congress, will make two public appearances during her first visit to Cornell as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor.
A $2.5 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help Cornell endow three new senior professorships in the humanities. (March 26, 2008)
Put another notch in the thermometer. October became the eighth month this year in the Northeast with temperatures averaging above normal, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
Rachelle Hood-Phillips, chief diversity officer of Denny's Restaurants, will deliver a talk at Cornell Sept. 26. The talk will take place from 4 to 5 p.m in 305 Ives Hall and is free and open to the public.
Tuition at private colleges and universities has never been higher. It is also likely to keep on going up. With combined tuition, fees, room, board and expenses at the best institutions topping the high-water mark of $30,000 a year and rising, many students cannot attend these institutions without substantial help.