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)
You have cheered baseball in a ballpark, watched football in a stadium and enjoyed basketball in a gymnasium. Now, for the first time in the United States, wrestling has its own house.
Julia E. Annas, Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, will explore Plato's contribution to ethical thought, the different interpretations of his work from antiquity to the present and the enduring interest in his moral philosophy in this year's Townsend Lectures in Classics.
Does the Amazon River basin thrive with more tree biomass than that along the shores of Opeongo Lake in Canada's Algonquin Provincial Park? Is the Congo Basin more tree biomass-rich than the Argonne Forest in northeastern France?
"Ammonsfest," a celebration of the life and work of acclaimed poet A.R. Ammons, Cornell's Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry, will be held on the Cornell campus April 3 and 4.
From dangerously rundown houses in rural upstate New York to urban shantytowns in Latin America, substandard housing is a growing international problem linked to globalization and poverty.
It makes wine smell like a barn, wet leather, horse sweat, or burned beans. It is called "brett," and it produces an often-pungent aroma in wine. Scientists are starting to unravel the chemical mysteries that produce the curious aroma found in fermented beverages like wine and beer
The fifth annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony at Cornell was awarded to the campus Multicultural Living Learning Unit at a ceremony April 7 in Willard Straight Hall.