The news was met with cheers from supporters on two continents. After months of negotiations, Cornell and Technion's proposal was announced the winner of a bid to build a groundbreaking campus in New York City.
After stops at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., galleries in Boston, Charlotte, N.C., and Florence, Italy, and two weeks at Ithaca College's Handwerker Gallery, the artist Jason Dilley's startling exhibit on the faces and voices of AIDS, Project Face to Face, will open at the art gallery in Willard Straight Hall.
The materials and technology of the 21st century will be under examination when a major industrial research conference, the 11th annual Polymer Outreach Program symposium, is held at Cornell University May 22 and 23.
Three Cornell University students have received the 2006-07 Morris K. Udall Scholarship. The students garnered awards up to $5,000 each from a field of 445 nominations from 224 institutions.
Edna O'Brien, one of Ireland's foremost literary figures, will give a fiction reading as the first event in the new Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading Series Oct. 3.
Cornell events this week include an eco-cruise on Cayuga Lake, 'A Trip to the Moon' and other films in Willard Straight Hall, a lecture on entrepreneurship, and jazz musician Tia Fuller in Bailey Hall. (Sept. 6, 2012)
Dr. Carl Sagan, the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, has returned for diagnosis and treatment to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. During careful post-treatment monitoring, the earliest signs of a potential relapse of myelodysplasia were detected. It is being vigorously treated with the objective of a complete cure. Dr. Sagan is continuing his research and writing schedule and expects to be back at Cornell University in the fall. Sagan.lb.html (The above is the complete story.)
The committee for the 1998 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is calling for proposals from local community organizations and agencies. Proposals are due by April 15.
A new book, co-edited by Warren Allmon and Linda Grace-Kobas, collects the results of the first Darwin Day at Cornell, held in February 2006. Darwin Day 2007 will be observed Feb. 8-12. (Feb. 6, 2007)