The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca on Friday, May 22, and Saturday, May 23. The open session will include a discussion of the 1999-2000 operating and capital budget plans for the statutory colleges.
A community program to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC), 318 N. Albany St., on Martin Luther King Day.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library $865,845 for the preservation of books, family farm memoirs, land transactions and other published materials that depict the history of American agricultural and rural life.
On Sept. 11, 1906, Mahatma Gandhi launched his peaceful campaign against injustices toward Indians in South Africa.
It is not the event we normally associate with Sept. 11. But on a day of remembering the victims of the Sept. 11,…
Kyle L. Grazier, associate professor of heath care finances and director of the Sloan Program at Cornell University, has been named a J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise at Cornell.
Giselle Vitaliti '07 began college excited and hopeful, but by the start of her second semester, pressures from her parents to do well at school, the workload and financial concerns resulted in physical illness and…
When NASA today announced its intention to send two rover exploration vehicles to Mars on its previously announced 2003 space shot, it introduced the ambitious venture with a two-minute, computer-generated video that dramatizes the mission with startling clarity and accuracy.
Igor Novikov, theoretical astrophysicist, will deliver two lectures as the Thomas Gold Lecturer at Cornell. Novikov, a professor at the Theoretical Astrophysics Center in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Are there lessons to be learned when exported U.S.-style democracy fails to take root in the world's less-developed regions? The organizers of a conference at Cornell University on law and development think so. The conference, which takes place on Cornell's campus Sunday through Tuesday, April 18-20, will examine such rocky terrain as U.S. nation-building efforts in Iraq and elsewhere and will seek to learn from past failures and successes. (April 16, 2004)