Events this week include two nights of Sage Chapel Christmas Vespers, student films at the Schwartz Center, a selection of recent movies at Cornell Cinema, and free talks on bird cams, snakes and pets.
Common Council is slated to vote on Dec. 6 on whether to allow Cornell to build a pair of safety barriers to restrict access to Fall Creek gorge through the former industrial site known as "Ezra's Tunnel."
Demonstrating the importance they place on town-gown relations, the presidents of Cornell University, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College will speak at the annual town-gown awards event Dec. 2.
As of Nov. 28, the Cornell United Way campaign has raised $473,260, or 63 percent of its goal of $750,000. This total includes more than $73,000 raised in the past two weeks.
Cultivating hops in New York state has its challenges, mainly from pests and two pervasive diseases, and Cornell researchers are lending a hand to new growers.
Upcoming Cooperative Extension events: Press Bay Holiday Market, Leadership in Our Midst: Cultivating Leader-full Organizations, Parents Apart® and more.
People with disabilities in the study were nearly 44 percent more likely to be arrested by age 28, while those without had a lower probability of arrest, at 30 percent. This “disability penalty” was strongest for African-American men.
Laura Lewis, a former Cornell staff member who soon will serve on the Common Council for the City of Ithaca’s Fifth Ward, will open the 2018 Soup & Hope biweekly series of personal narratives Jan. 18, noon to 1 p.m., in Sage Chapel.
Pre-ordering begins Nov. 30 for the one-day Apple sale Dec. 14. The sale is offered exclusively for Cornell University faculty and staff, employees of Weill Cornell Medicine and affiliated organizations on eligible personal purchases only.
A Cornell student, representing global youth constituencies at the Conference of the Parties (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, delivered a strong climate change statement to the convention delegates.