The Cornell Environmental Film Festival returns for its sixth year of movies and discussion with more than 30 films, ranging from documentaries to narratives and animation to comedic shorts.
David Skorton's first five days as Cornell's 12th president were a carefully choreographed whirlwind of meetings, tours, introductions, media interviews and photo ops. But choreography aside, Skorton quickly found his own groove.
Cornell President David Skorton sat down with Cornell Chronicle editors to talk about the the five-year campaign's public phase, launched this week in New York City.
As Cornell prepares to unveil its five-year campaign goal, Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Charlie Phlegar sat down with the Cornell Chronicle editors to answer questions about the upcoming launch of the campaign's public phase.
Angela King, adviser on gender issues and the advancement of women to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, is the keynote speaker at a major international symposium on the AIDS pandemic March 29-30 in 700 Clark Hall on Cornell University's campus. It is free and open to the public. "AIDS Symposium, 2002: Global Problem, Shared Responsibility" begins Friday at 7 p.m. with the talk by King, who also is U.N. assistant secretary-general. The event's key sponsors are Cornell's Institute for African Development, Latin American Studies Program and South Asia Program. The symposium follows a Cornell conference March 28-29 on a related topic, women's need for access to higher education in Africa. (March 25, 2002)
"There will be no genuine third party, and certainly no real transformation into a multiparty system, without a constitutional revolution," says Theodore J. Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell.
Geoffrey Coates, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell, has been selected by 'Technology Review' magazine as one of 100 young innovators under the age of 35.
In its newly published strategic plan, Cornell University is positioning itself as 'the exemplary, comprehensive research university' of the 21st century. (May 15, 2008)
The real causes of the Hurricane Katrina flooding in New Orleans are historical and political, according to Cornell expert Thomas O'Rourke, who calls for better disaster planning everywhere. (Feb. 19, 2007)