To raise awareness about social justice and peace movements and to reflect on the work of peace activist Father Daniel Berrigan and the late Rev. Jack Lewis, who led Cornell United Religious Work (CURW) during the tumultuous anti-Vietnam War era, a weekend of festivities titled "Celebrating Peace Activism: America Is Still Hard to Find" and a visit from Berrigan are slated for Sept. 19-21 at Cornell University. Coordinated by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy (CRESP) at Cornell, the weekend includes a festival of music that includes Michelle Shocked, Stephan Smith, and Bread and Puppet Theater on the Arts Quad, a debate on the role of direct action and voting in political discourse, and remarks and a sermon by Berrigan. (August 26, 2003)
Exploring new possibilities in research collaborations and faculty exchanges, a seven-member contingent of Cornell faculty recently finished a series of nanoscience workshops at two Chinese universities.
Participant Stephen Sass,…
Donald P. Hayes, Cornell professor emeritus of sociology and developer of LEX, a scientific measure of the lexical difficulty of text, died at his Ithaca home Oct. 17.
New research shows colorful patchwork quilts that are actually pictures of graphene - one atom-thick sheets of carbon stitched together at tilted interfaces. (Jan. 5, 2011)
This summer Cornell will be the epicenter of a major national initiative to diversify humanities departments called the Future of Minorities Studies Research Project (FMS) Summer Institute.
Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva has entered into an academic agreement with Hobart and William Smith Colleges that allows HWS students to work and study with NYSAES scientists. (Sept. 4, 2007)
Events on campus this week include Maria Schneider, Ellis Paul, organ and 'Cultural Fusion' concerts, Tommy Bruce on WVBR, WSKG broadcasting from Uris Hall, lectures on race, gardening, Islam.
Cornell archaeologist Andrew Ramage was a Harvard University graduate student when he struck gold at an excavation site in Sardis, Turkey, in 1968. Ramage's detective work led to a one-of-a-kind discovery: a gold refinery that belonged to legendary Lydian emperor King Croesus, the world's first "millionaire."