The lobby of the Johnson Museum thrummed in anticipation April 12 as a dozen poets and an audience of 50 gathered for a poetry slam, a quasi-competitive event whose real purpose is to share the enjoyment of performing poetry. (April 16, 2007)
Cornell Hillel students traveled to Ukraine June 15 for a nine-day service trip to serve elderly and disabled Jews, many of whom live in poverty. (July 24, 2008)
Education officials don't usually have to make life-or-death decisions on the job. But for Enver Halilovic, who was responsible for education in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the war there, moral questions loomed over his every mandate.
Events this week include a conversation with athletes-turned-politicians Bill Bradley and Ken Dryden '70, Alloy Orchestra at Cornell Cinema, Jay Walker '77 on innovation, and a forum on poverty policy. (Sept. 3, 2009)
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca on Friday, May 25, and Saturday, May 26. The Executive Committee of the board will hold a brief open session at the start of its meeting at 9 a.m. Friday, May 25, in Ballroom B of the Statler Hotel.
Dale Raymond Corson, Cornell's eighth president (1969-77) and a distinguished physicist and engineer, died March 31 at his home at Kendal at Ithaca. A celebration of his life will be held Sept. 8. (March 31, 2012)
The body of Cornell trustee and benefactor Philip Merrill '55, international statesman and adviser to U.S. and Cornell presidents, has been recovered in the Chesapeake Bay; his family said his death was "in all likelihood the…
Steven Beckwith, former Cornell professor of astronomy and now director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the astronomical research center responsible for operating the Hubble Space Telescope.