Library-sponsored student awards range from fun contests to formal recognition of accomplishments.
T-shirt contest
The top contender for "fun" awards is the Fine Arts Library's (FAL) T-shirt Contest. The goal of the competition…
Philip Lewis, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University, and Biddy Martin, senior associate dean of the college, today (Dec. 3, 1998) released a statement about the Latino Studies Program.
Alum Phyllis Weiss Haserot '65, MRP '67, and other diversity experts spoke about recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce at the 12th annual Cornell Diversity Update Conference, Nov. 8. (Nov. 16, 2010)
Gioia De Cari performed her one-woman-show on the plights of being a woman at MIT Nov. 11 and 12; a faculty panel followed each performance. (Nov. 16, 2010)
Despite the steps he took to try to avert it, the 2008 financial crisis was unstoppable, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in the 29th Hatfield Address, Nov. 11 in Bailey Hall. (Nov. 12, 2010)
See how basketball and skiing athletic wear has become part of popular fashion, how surrealism in the fine arts in the 1930s has influenced fashion ever since and how the first couturier, Charles Worth, incorporated aesthetic ideas from Chinese and Japanese textiles into his great designs.
Volunteers for Cornell Prison Education Program gain as much as they give in helping to teach Cornell courses at Auburn Correctional Facility. Classes started Sept. 8, and volunteers are welcome any time. (Sept. 9, 2009)
Walter I. Cohen, vice provost and dean of the Cornell Graduate School, is stepping down after eight years as dean, Cornell Provost Biddy Martin announced today. Cohen will step down as dean effective June 30, Martin said. He will remain as vice provost and will continue to serve on the Graduate School faculty as a professor of comparative literature.
Biology major Sarasi Jayaratne '12 is founder and executive director of the Keep Reading Foundation, which has shipped 15,000 children's books to 48 schools in rural Sri Lanka. (Nov. 2, 2010)