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'String theory' physicist Edward Witten speaks Sept. 1 at Cornell

"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'

Edward M. Scolnick, president of Merck Labs, to talk at Cornell April 3 on origins of prion and mad cow disease

Edward M. Scolnick, president of Merck Research Laboratories (MRL) and executive vice president for science and technology of MRL's parent, Merck & Co. Inc., will give a public talk, Wednesday, April 3.

National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali will give a free show, April 12, at Cornell's Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room

Four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali will be the featured artist for the Lauren Pickard '90 Emerging Artist Series Monday, April 12, at Cornell University. His performance is free and open to the public. A noted poet, playwright and former sixth-grade teacher who has appeared in two seasons of HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry," Mali will bring his humorous, provocative, full-body poetry assault to the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room beginning at 7:30 p.m. (April 1, 2004)

Honored CU seniors in turn honor their most influential teachers

Cornell's Merrill Presidential Scholars Program honored 37 Cornell undergraduate students this week, while also honoring the high school teachers and university faculty members who made important contributions to the students' lives.

Preservation students and alumni go to the pen, but instead of breaking rocks, they replace windows

A group of 10 alumni and 25 historic preservation and planning students went to prison in April -- for a work weekend at the Eastern State Penitentiary complex in Philadelphia. (May 30, 2007)

Richard Smallwood to headline Festival of Black Gospel at Cornell University Feb. 20 to 22

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.

Cornell's Hans Bethe to give Gemant Lecture on "The Making of the Bomb" Oct. 28

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.

How Cornell and its 4-H account for 'one-third' of New York's state fair

"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…

Knight Foundation awards $5 million to Cornell's Knight Writing Program

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.

Eleven Cornell Tradition students will use their awards to benefit others

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.