This summer Cornell will host the Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, a major event held every other year that draws hundreds of scholars from several disciplines and countries. Although Cornell has a long history in linguistics, this is the first time that Ithaca has been home to the Institute.
The Alumni Association of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University will honor eight alumni at the association's annual alumni awards banquet Friday, Oct. 13.
Cornell has vigorously reaffirmed its commitment to providing students with the financial aid they need to attend the university and has significantly increased funding -- with some awards boosted as much as 40 percent -- of a major financial aid program, officials announced last week.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Cornell President David Skorton and Technion President Peretz Lavie today announced a historic partnership to build an applied science and engineering campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City.
The Northeast survived the 11th warmest February in 103 years of record -- warm enough to shatter six all-time temperature records for the month and set or tie 47 daily high-temperature records, according to climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced on Oct. 23 that he will ask the Board of Trustees to approve the investment of $400 million over the next 10 years for a new program to transform undergraduate education.
The final report by the Middle States reaccreditation team, issued in late June, was glowing in its praise for Cornell University as "a truly special place."
The following testimony is scheduled to be delivered by Henrik N. Dullea, Cornell vice president for university relations, at a New York State Senate Committee on Higher Education hearing on "Rethinking SUNY." The hearing is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23, at Morris Conference Center, State University of New York at Oneonta.
In 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, a pioneering exposure of the hazards of the pesticide DDT, became one of the most influential books in the history of science and helped set the stage for the environmental movement.
Nobel laureate Hans Bethe, the last of the giants of the golden age of 20th-century physics and the birth of modern atomic theory, and one of science's most universally admired figures, died at his home in Ithaca, N.Y.