After 18 months of study, surveys, town hall meetings and departmental debate, three Cornell faculty task forces are releasing their final reports on how Cornell can take a leading role in shaping the university of the future. …
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.
More than 1,000 mourners paid their respects to the late Stephen H. Weiss '57, chairman emeritus of the Cornell Board of Trustees, at Cipriani 42nd Street, New York City, May 20. (May 21, 2008)
For two Cornell students about to graduate May 25, the past weeks have been marked by worry about friends and relatives affected by the May 12 Sichuan, China, earthquake. (May 21, 2008)
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)
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.