There are always ways to improve a situation and do things better than they've been done before, said Howard Milstein '73, the 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year, at the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration. (April 14, 2008)
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold its first meetings of 2004 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, Jan. 22 through 24. The full board will meet from 9 to 11:45 a.m. and from 1:45 to 3:15 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23.
Events on campus this week include films on utopias, Street Fair at Ho Plaza, Clubfest at Barton Hall, Bienvenidos barbecue, a folk concert, humanities lecture and discussion of nature in literature. (Aug. 26, 2010)
An NTI Fellows Workshop hosted by Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (Tcat) scheduled for Friday, Sept. 14, has been canceled due to air travel problems encountered by the workshop facilitator, Catherine Bradshaw Boon.
First-year and transfer students explored the nature of being human, living with technology and other topics at six faculty lectures Aug. 22 on Philip K. Dick's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' (Aug. 23, 2010)
Last year they stripped away a half century's worth of weeds and overgrowth to reveal the sleeping beauty that was once the Commissioner's House on Ellis Island.
Panelists discuss Kenya's tribal warfare, politics and elections in a forum in conjunction with Heal Kenya, a campaign at Cornell to raise money to help Kenyans displaced by ethnic violence. (April 2, 2008)
University Archivist Elaine Engst and historian Carol Kammen discussed how blacks and Jews were simultaneously 'part and apart' of the Cornell student body from the beginning in New York, Jan. 26.
The tragedy surrounding the earthquake in Haiti is the result of human failure as much as natural disaster, said geology and engineering faculty members in a panel discussion Jan. 25 in Phillips Hall. (Jan. 26, 2010)