A collective sigh of relief could be heard around the corridors of Cornell's Space Sciences Building late Tuesday night when the Mars Odyssey spacecraft went into orbit around Mars.
Jane Goodall, the world-renowned primatologist, will present a free and open lecture titled 'Individuals Make a Difference For Humans and Chimpanzees' on Friday, Sept. 11, at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall at Cornell.
Vera Bauer Palmer from Niagara Falls, N.Y., a Cornell graduate student in the Department of English, has received a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities. Bauer.
Pulitzer Prize--winning author and Civil War historian James M. McPherson will speak at Cornell on Tuesday, April 29, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall.
The good news is that all the roads on Cornell's campus - including those that have been closed for construction for most of the summer - will be open Friday (Aug. 20). The bad news is those roads will be clogged with thousands of cars as some 3,200 new students arrive.
Events on campus this week include a benefit for endangered elephants, the Ithakid Film Festival, a Science Cabaret with Cornell astronomers, Shanghai Quartet and a post-Election Day panel discussion. (Nov. 1, 2012)
Cornell has been named a "College of the Year" by TIME magazine and The Princeton Review for its successful and innovative writing program, the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Education officials don't usually have to make life-or-death decisions on the job. But for Enver Halilovic, who was responsible for education in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the war there, moral questions loomed over his every mandate. "This was a real human problem as well as a moral problem, deciding whether or not children should go to school," he recently told students in a European history class at Cornell University. Though the United Nations had identified Tuzla as one of six "safe areas" in Bosnia, he said, it was shelled regularly by Serbian forces -- who often targeted schools.