A revised Campus Code of Conduct was discussed Oct. 2 at a public forum in Willard Straight Hall. The Codes and Judicial Committee is soliciting further comments on the code until Oct. 15. (Oct. 4, 2007)
Science can communicate with, learn from and even benefit from religion and vice versa, said Ann Druyan, widow of Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan. She spoke about dialogues in the early 1990s between Sagan and the Dalai Lama. (Oct. 3, 2007)
Cornell has received two grants totaling $1 million to expand the John S. Knight Writing Program, which seeks to improve student writing and the teaching of writing through a variety of innovative techniques and programs. A $750,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will establish a national center for writing in the disciplines.
The heavens are sharper than ever before to the Earth-bound watcher, thanks to astronomers at Cornell and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Cornell researchers have built an infrared camera for the California Institute of Technology's 200-inch Hale telescope.
The Cornell Tradition program at Cornell has honored 12 seniors for their outstanding demonstration of the program's values of work, service and scholarship, with $2,500 awards.
Cornell's solar house -- featuring a canopy of steel scaffolding surrounding the structure -- is being packed up for the trip to the international Solar Decathlon competition, Oct. 11-19. (Sept. 26, 2007)
Successful startup businesses are a way to make a town or neighborhood more economically vibrant. But mainstream agencies that help people start and sustain small businesses have often overlooked the minority community.
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Jamaica Kincaid, one of the most important and influential authors writing today, will give a reading Friday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall on the Cornell University campus. The event is free and open to the public. Kincaid is the third reader in the James McConkey Readings in American Fiction series sponsored by the Cornell Department of English's Creative Writing Program. The previous readers in the series have been Tobias Wolff, in 2001, and Tim O'Brien, in 1999. (October 15, 2003)
"Ring out the old, ring in the new!" proclaims the inscription on the first of nine bells given to Cornell by Jennie McGraw and played at the university's inauguration day in 1868.