"One year, I took a map of the [state] fairgrounds and colored in all the 4-H exhibits," said Celeste Carmichael, the 4-H youth development program specialist who has helped coordinate Cornell-related 4-H events at the Great New…
"Duality and Unification" will be the topic for mathematical physicist Edward Witten of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies when he delivers a special Gemant Lecture on Monday, Sept. 1, at 3:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall'
Two researchers have received five-year, $2.5 million Director's Pioneer Awards from the National Institutes of Health, and three other major grants were awarded to faculty members, the NIH announced Sept. 24. (Sept. 24, 2009)
Grammy Award-winning artist Richard Smallwood, singing with the choir Vision, will headline the 22nd Annual Festival of Black Gospel at Cornell Feb. 20 to 22.
Hans A. Bethe, Nobel laureate physicist at Cornell and head of the Theoretical Physics Division at Los Alamos for the Manhattan Project during World War II, will give a lecture on "The Making of the Bomb" on Monday, Oct. 28.
Thomas "Tommy" Gold, a brilliant and controversial figure in 20th century science and professor emeritus of astronomy at Cornell, died June 22 at Cayuga Medical Center, Ithaca, N.Y., after a long battle with heart disease. He was 84 years of age.
The John S. Knight Writing Program at Cornell University has been awarded a $5 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to strengthen, broaden and extend the outreach of the program.
Since 1989 the Cornell Tradition, an alumni-endowed student recognition program at Cornell University, has been honoring its own graduating seniors with Senior Recognition Awards.
Acclaimed contemporary Israeli novelist Ronit Matalon will read from her work Sunday, Feb. 22, at Tompkins County Library and will be at Cornell University Monday, Feb. 23, to deliver a talk, "Writing, Desire and Two Billion Hungry People." Both events are free and open to the public. The Feb. 22 reading is at 2:30 p.m. in the library's Borg Warner Room. The Feb. 23 talk at Cornell is at 4:30 p.m. in White Hall, Room 106. "Ronit's visit offers the Cornell community a window onto the vibrancy of Israeli literature and culture," said Deborah Starr, an assistant professor in Near Eastern studies. "Her talk will also offer insights into the role of public intellectuals in Israeli society." (February 17, 2004)
NASA's Contour space mission and Cornell are challenging students and their teachers in the United States to participate in the spacecraft's forthcoming exploration of comets.