Fellowship grants will increase by 40 percent for students in the Cornell Tradition, an alumni-endowed program that rewards Cornell undergraduates for academic achievement and community service.
The annual Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony at Cornell will be awarded for the third time at a ceremony on April 28, at 3 p.m. at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Orpheus M. Williams, a senior in human ecology and co-leader of Peer Educators in Human Relations will receive this year's $5,000 award.
Professor Emeritus Thomas Eisner, a world-renowned authority on animal behavior, chemical ecology and evolution, died from complications of Parkinson's disease March 25 at home in Ithaca. He was 81.
The Partnership for the Public Good, founded in Buffalo in 2007 by the ILR School, is working with local groups to make the city a model of urban regeneration and create policies advancing equity and sustainability.
When the Cassini-Hugyens spacecraft arrives at Saturn at 7:36 PDT (10:36 EDT) tonight (June 30), among the most anxious participants at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory here will be Cornell University astronomer Joseph Burns.
James A. Johnson, chairman and CEO of Johnson Capital Partners, a private investment company, will speak at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management Nov. 16 on "Corporate Responsibility in the 21st Century."
A Cornell University alumna and her family have donated $500,000 to establish an endowment for the university's Public Service Center, Susan H. Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, announced today (Dec. 5).
In the year to come, a bevy of Cornell's best and brightest will study not high above Cayuga's waters, but along the Isis -- as the River Thames is known in Oxford, England. Just last December, three Cornell students won prestigious Rhodes and Marshall scholarships for study in Oxford.
The following are quotations from an address by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Cornell's Senior Convocation, held from noon to 1 p.m. on May 25 in Barton Hall.