Albert Einstein played the violin. Werner Heisenberg was a distinguished pianist. Richard Feynman played ... well, the bongos. But you get the idea.
Music and physics seem like disciplines on the opposite ends of a spectrum. One,…
'You are the unsung heroes and heroines of our society,' media star Katie Couric, co-anchor of NBC's 'Today' show, said in a moving speech to doctors and other health-care professionals gathered to discuss crucial updates and issues in gastrointestinal cancers.
Marilyn Tebor Shaw '76 and a group of six other volunteers are working to ensure that nomadic Kenyan children who hunger for an education are able to get one. (March 27, 2007)
Cornell will host Horses 2002, a two-day conference April 6 and 7, featuring demonstrations, clinics, educational seminars related to equine issues, and speakers, including horse-and-rider relationship expert GaWaNi Pony Boy.
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin called for more diversity in faculty hiring in her first Academic State of the University Address March 7. (March 8, 2007)
A Cornell student, arriving at Vladimir Nabokov's house in the 1950s, saw a fire blazing in the backyard. Suddenly the professor's wife ran out of the house and extracted pages of a manuscript from the flames.
Eighteen prominent hospitality executives and 12 faculty members at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration analyzed the quality of leadership at the 2005 Leadership Roundtable Sept. 8 in the Statler Hotel.