New, incoming students will be welcomed to Cornell with a week of activities, events, trips and speakers, tailored just for them. Approximately 3,300 freshman, 500 transfer students and 1,500 new graduate and professional students will flock to campus.
The President's Council of Cornell Women at Cornell has awarded 17 grants to help advance the careers of women in academia through support of the completion of dissertations and research leading to tenure and promotion.
On Dec. 12, officials from Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Nature Conservancy and other agencies held a press conference at a hunting lodge outside of Brinkley, Ark., to announce that a new search for the Ivory-billed woodpecker was now in full swing. (December 13, 2005)
After 10 days of digging out from the Blizzard of '96, temperatures across the northeastern and middle Atlantic regions of the United States have begun to rise in what folklore calls the "January Thaw."
ITHACA, N.Y. -- David A. Hollinger, a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, will give a lecture titled "The Will to Descend: Culture, Color and Genealogy" at Cornell University on Monday, April 28, at 4:30 p.m. in the Bethe Room, 700 Clark Hall. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will focus on current debates over the relation of culture to ethnoracial classifications and is presented as the 1996--97 Nordlander Lecture in Science and Public Policy, sponsored by Cornell's Department of Science and Technology Studies.
The video and sound engineers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library - billed as the world's largest archive of animal sounds and associated video - are in the process of digitizing their entire collection.
The Land Grant Mission Review Task Force has sent recommendations to the Cornell University Board of Trustees, and implementation has begun on some action steps, said Francille Firebaugh, vice provost for land grant affairs and special assistant to the president.
Ronald Ehrenberg, industrial and labor relations; Anthony Ingraffea, civil and environmental engineering; and Paul Sherman, neurobiology and behavior, are the 2005 recipients of the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships for effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students. (November 09, 2005)
Cornell University President Hunter R. Rawlings will be heading to China Nov. 14 for a four-day trip to Beijing. He plans to sign an official partnership agreement with Peking University (formalizing Cornell's newest academic major, China and Asia-Pacific studies), deliver a keynote address at the 2005 Beijing Forum and participate in an engineering workshop with Tsinghua University. (November 07, 2005)
Susan Murphy, Cornell University vice president for student and academic affairs, has announced that a task force has been formed to address issues confronting Cornell's Asian and Asian-American student community. Murphy said the task force was established in response to the need for a campuswide approach to address campus climate, services and program issues as they relate to Cornell's Asian and Asian-American community. She noted that students of Asian descent comprise the largest single community of color at Cornell, at 14 percent of the total student body, 16 percent of all undergraduates and 55 percent of all international students. Any improvement in the well-being for this community will likely improve the campus climate for the university at large, she said. (January 22, 2003)