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.
Members of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 26, for their joint annual meeting, which this year celebrates the 50th annual meeting of the council.
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.
The President's Council of Cornell Women, an alumnae group that serves as an advisory council to Cornell's president, has awarded its 2004 research grants to 11 women faculty members.
Antonio Mercader, Uruguay's ambassador to the Organization of American States, will give a lecture at Cornell on April 28, at 4:30 p.m. in Room G-08 Uris Hall. The free and public lecture is titled "El Futuro de la Democracia en America Latina" and will be given in Spanish with English translation.
James A. Perkins, who as president of Cornell from 1963 to 1969 led the campus during its most tumultuous years of social change, died August 19 in Burlington, Vt. He was 86.
The Vietnam Moving Wall will be displayed on the Agriculture Quad at Cornell University from Tuesday, May 1, through Saturday morning, May 5. The public is invited to opening ceremonies for the Moving Wall on May 1 at 5:30 p.m. on the Ag Quad.
Phillip V. Tobias, one of the world's leading experts on human ancestors, will give a public talk about his experiences in the field, "Eureka Moments in My Career," Thursday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Morrison Room (A106) of Corson Hall.