More than 1,000 mourners paid their respects to the late Stephen H. Weiss '57, chairman emeritus of the Cornell Board of Trustees, at Cipriani 42nd Street, New York City, May 20. (May 21, 2008)
For two Cornell students about to graduate May 25, the past weeks have been marked by worry about friends and relatives affected by the May 12 Sichuan, China, earthquake. (May 21, 2008)
A revised Campus Code of Conduct was discussed Oct. 2 at a public forum in Willard Straight Hall. The Codes and Judicial Committee is soliciting further comments on the code until Oct. 15. (Oct. 4, 2007)
Science can communicate with, learn from and even benefit from religion and vice versa, said Ann Druyan, widow of Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan. She spoke about dialogues in the early 1990s between Sagan and the Dalai Lama. (Oct. 3, 2007)
Cornell's solar house -- featuring a canopy of steel scaffolding surrounding the structure -- is being packed up for the trip to the international Solar Decathlon competition, Oct. 11-19. (Sept. 26, 2007)
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Jamaica Kincaid, one of the most important and influential authors writing today, will give a reading Friday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall on the Cornell University campus. The event is free and open to the public. Kincaid is the third reader in the James McConkey Readings in American Fiction series sponsored by the Cornell Department of English's Creative Writing Program. The previous readers in the series have been Tobias Wolff, in 2001, and Tim O'Brien, in 1999. (October 15, 2003)