President David Skorton thanked employees for 'staying the course' and continuing to accomplish goals despite a smaller workforce in his annual talk sponsored by the Employee Assembly. (Oct. 13, 2009)
Harry Potter, teaching math in prison and discussing sexuality in Hong Kong - such pursuits have become possible since Professor Emerita Sally McConnell-Ginet retired. (May 12, 2010)
The Cornell assistant professor of astronomy works on instrumentation that searches the night skies for planets outside our solar system, called extrasolar planets. (Oct. 12, 2009)
In a partnership between Cornell University Library and Amazon.com, some 90,000 titles from Cornell's library shelves will be available as print-on-demand books as well as online. (Feb. 26, 2009)
Plants of China and Japan, foods of South America, tree rings of the Mediterranean and gardens of New England are among the topics for this fall's free Wednesday night lecture series sponsored by Cornell Plantations at Cornell.
A symposium at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, N.C. celebrated the work of Cornell's A.R. 'Archie' Ammons, the late Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry who also was a Wake Forest alumnus. (Nov. 22, 2010)
Hip-hop collector, historian and author Johan Kugelberg praised the leadership of Cornell librarians during a Library Salon, held Oct. 6 at the Union League Club in New York City. (Oct. 8, 2009)
Randy Cohen, Emmy-Award winner and writer of "The Ethicist" column in The New York Times Magazine, is the featured speaker at this year's Cornell Commitment Convocation, Friday, March 11, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall at Cornell University.
The panel discussion, 'Gaza in Crisis,' brought a full-to-capacity audience and passionate debate to Goldwin Smith Hall's Lewis Auditorium Feb. 18. (Feb. 19, 2009)
Journalists Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn '81 discussed how the economic empowerment of women is the best strategy for fighting poverty worldwide in a talk April 29 on campus. (May 4, 2010)