In studying the history of an institution, historians often look back at its administrative records. Today, more and more, those records are being created in electronic form and never even exist on paper.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold its first meeting of 2002 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, Jan. 24 through 26.
Playwright Christopher Durang will be among the participants in the symposium 'Wendy Wasserstein: An Uncommon Woman,' Feb. 23-25 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. (Feb. 20, 2007)
Associate Professor Amy Villarejo spoke on 'TV Time, or Thughts on TV' at the Society for the Humanities annual invitational lecture Feb. 15. (Feb. 20, 2007)
Dr. Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, will deliver a public lecture titled "Creativity and the Brain," Thursday, Sept. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Statler Auditorium on the Cornell University campus. The talk is free and open to the public. Tickets are required and will be available starting Aug. 26 at the Willard Straight Hall Ticket Office with a limit of two per person. During his second campus visit as an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell, Sacks also will visit five classes and deliver a presentation based on his BBC program "Poison in Paradise" to undergraduates in the new Alice Cook House on West Campus. (August 25, 2004)
William Kennedy returned to Cornell Nov. 1 to give the fifth James McConkey Reading in American Fiction to a large and appreciative audience, in sharp contrast to his first visit to campus. (Nov. 5, 2007)
The music and dance ensemble Gamelan Cudamani gave audiences -- including more than 400 local school students -- a taste of cultural and spiritual life in a Balinese village in performances. (Nov. 1, 2007)
An antibody called J591 specifically targets an antigen found in high amounts on both prostate tumors and on blood vessels of all solid tumors, according to a study by researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
The first in a series of articles about the four-decade legacy of the 36-hour student takeover of Willard Straight Hall that began April 18, 1969. (April 16, 2009)