The fall's Townsend Visiting Professor Raffaella Cribiore spent a week on campus Oct. 15-22 lecturing about the ancient rhetoric teacher Libanius and ancient education. (Nov. 2, 2010)
On Oct. 25, former national security advisers Samuel Berger '67 and Stephen Hadley '69 discussed the challenges the next U.S. president will face in trying to reassert America's leadership in the world.
President David Skorton detailed accomplishments, new initiatives and challenges as he led Cornell's leadership on virtual tours of the university in the present day and in 2015 during his first State of the University Address.
Showcase of student-created computer games is fun, but it also serves as a final exam. Players' reactions to the games are part of the students' final grade. (May 18, 2011)
More than 100 people gathered May 14 and 15 for a symposium, 'Galaxies: not WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get),' celebrating Haynes' 60th birthday. (May 17, 2011)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will be the first federal organization to use VIVO, a Web application conceived and developed at Cornell, to help scientists network and find potential collaborators. (Oct. 28, 2010)
The Chinese Youth Goodwill Mission, a 21-member ensemble from the Republic of Taiwan, will present a performance extravaganza Friday, Sept. 25, at 8 p.m. in Cornell's Statler Auditorium. The show, which is open to the public.
From studies on the vocal organs to how foreclosures have impacted racial integration, social science research at Cornell just got a boost from the university's Institute for the Social Sciences. (Oct. 22, 2012)
Cornell's newest Rhodes Professor R. Spencer Wells has spent much of his career studying humankind's family tree and closing the gaps in the understanding of human migration. (July 31, 2009)
A combination of hard work, revisions of earlier writings, coincidence and swift turnarounds in publication led to Shawkat Toorawa's remarkable coup of four books in one academic year (November 01, 2005)