Sophocles' tragic play Antigone may not be on The New York Times' suggested summer reading list, but it is required reading for more than 3,500 incoming freshmen.
Renowned psychoanalysts and scholars will converge on the Cornell University campus Nov. 22-24 for an international and interdisciplinary conference titled "Legacies of Freud: Translations". The conference, free and open to the public.
From across the United States and Australia, high school teachers who most inspired 35 of Cornell's top graduating seniors will be honored by the university on May 21.
New marriage-promotion welfare rules proposed by the Bush administration will violate poor women's privacy rights and will not work, says a position paper written by three academics associated with Cornell University. The rules are expected to be reintroduced in the House of Representatives next week as part of the welfare bill, and brought to a vote as early as Tuesday, Feb. 11. (February 7, 2003)
A two-day international conference at Cornell March 28 and 29 examines what many see as a major stumbling block to the success of future African development -- gender equality and women's access to higher education. CEPARRED (the Pan African Studies and Research Center in International Relations and Education for Development), based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, is sponsoring the conference in collaboration with Cornell's Poverty, Inequality and Development Initiative (PIDI). "Women and Higher Education in Africa: Engendering Human Capital and Upgrading Human Right to Schooling," is free and open to the public. (March 26, 2002)
Cornell Professor Roald Hoffmann has been included among the top 75 chemists of the past 75 years in a special issue of Chemical & Engineering News, published Jan. 12.
Cornell chemists have garnered three of the American Chemical Society's 10 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards for 1997, and a fourth member of the chemistry faculty, Harold A. Scheraga, has earned the ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research.