Cornell's Society for the Humanities will focus on 'Culture and Conflict' during 2005-06, with visiting and Cornell faculty offering seminars directly related to the theme.
Cornell University alumni and longtime benefactors Robert J. and Helen H. Appel have committed $15 million to support the second phase of the university's Residential Initiative, a new living and learning environment for upper-level students on West Campus, Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced recently. (February 14, 2002)
Twenty-six black and Hispanic high school students from Washington, D.C., will learn that a university education is within their reach when they are hosted by Cornell University urban planning students and professors this Aug. 9-13.
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found a bright vein of a mineral deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help researchers better understand the history of wet environments on Mars. (Dec. 9, 2011)
Olive Tjaden, a pioneering architect who supervised the design of more than 400 homes from the 1920s to the 1940s in Garden City, Long Island, including many of that community's grand mansions, died.
The scholarly impact of the book is not reflected in its size.
Measuring 77 square inches and bound by wooden boards covered in blind-stamped leather, "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" changed the way we view the universe…
From Oct. 13 to Nov. 17, six committed middle and high school students have been commuting as long as 90 minutes to attend the Math Explorer's Club on campus to explore mathematical concepts and problem-solving strategies.
Standing before a bank of television cameras with people lining the hallways and balcony at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine's Veterinary Education Center, New York Gov. George Pataki announced Aug. 14 a grant of $50…