Isaac Kramnick, vice provost for undergraduate education at Cornell, today (May 1, 2002) announced the first recipients of the Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards. The awards were established by Stephen Ashley, a member of the Board of Trustees, to honor his former adviser, Kendall S. Carpenter, a professor of business management at Cornell from 1954 until his death at the age of 50 in 1967.
Provost Biddy Martin today (April 25, 2001) issued a statement concerning Cornell's plans for the renovation and improvement of its Africana Studies and Research Center.
Shoals Marine Laboratory, which began as an island-based marine sciences field station, then expanded with noncredit courses for adults, now extends the welcoming gangplank for children and teenagers.
A dramatic reading by professional actors of the award-winning historical novel Wooden Fish Songs by Ruthanne Lum McCunn is slated for Saturday, Oct. 18, at 8 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Three Cornell students, in different fields of study, are among a select few American recipients of the prestigious Rhodes and Marshall scholarships announced today.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center has established the Cornell Institute of Robotic Urological Surgery within the Brady Department of Urology. Robotic prostate surgery for prostate cancer patients will be the centerpiece of the new program.
March averaged 7 degrees colder than the same month last year, as the Northeast officially endured the 18th coldest March in 102 years of record, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
There's no arguing with success. Nine members of the Cornell Forensics Society, a debate and speech team with up to 40 members, secured a first place trophy at the 30th annual Bloomsberg University tournament in November.
Internationally known novelist Don DeLillo, who rarely makes public appearances, will read from his work Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Cornell's David L. Call Alumni Auditorium.
Stuart MacDonald Brown Jr., a former Cornell administrator and professor who was an authority on the philosophy of ethics and political theory, died March 18 at the Reconstruction Home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 80. He died from complications of a stroke, said his wife, Catherine D. Hemphill.