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.
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.
Safely back in Ithaca, the 12 students from BioES 400 (Canopy Biology and Canopy Access in the Neotropics) are glad they learned climbing fundamentals on indoor rock before heading up the Virola trees.
How safe is New York state according to the people who live here? What do New Yorkers believe are the most pressing problems facing the state today? And how does the state stack up as a place to find good jobs with benefits and room for advancement? The answers to those and a range of other questions can make an enormous difference in everything from state policies to federal grants. But while many other states have long had reliable, nonpartisan annual survey data on their residents, New York state hasn't until now. This June the results of the first ever Cornell Empire State Poll will be released. The new poll is a joint initiative between the Survey Research Institute (SRI) at Cornell University and Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, with assistance from the Department of Communication and other research departments. (April 30, 2003)
Five members of the Cornell faculty, including two scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research on the campus, have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Cornell has moved into the top leagues of undergraduate environmental research with the dedication of a $927,000 laboratory in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
About 500 people – alumni, friends, students and faculty at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell are taking part in the official grand opening of the Robert A. and Jan M. Beck Center addition to Statler Hall.
President Jeffrey Lehman will cut the red ribbon that marks the official grand reopening of the renovated School of Industrial and Labor Relations Conference Center, Research and Extension Buildings Oct. 15.
"Be it known that I, EZRA CORNELL, of Ithaca, in the county of Tompkins and state of New York, have invented a new and useful Machine or Implement for Laying Metallic Pipes in the Earth, which I denominate 'Cornell's Improved…
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)