The definitive Hurricane Katrina play was written three months before the storm hit. The play is "Pink Collar Crime" by New Orleans actress-playwright Yvette Sirker, Cornell Class of '84. (November 30, 2005)
Students off campus who call for help in alcohol-related emergencies will receive amnesty for certain infractions. A community meeting will be held April 23 to discuss student safety and the good Samaritan law. (April 19, 2012)
Valerie Jean Bunce, Theodore Eisenberg, Ronald Hoy and Roberto Sierra have been named fellows by one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. (April 22, 2010)
'University Courses,' piloted this fall, draw upon faculty interest in interdisciplinary study and collaborative teaching, and promote the 'one Cornell' idea in Cornell's strategic plan.
Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning since 2004, will be leaving Cornell to become dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design in January of 2008. (Aug. 10, 2007)
The magazine also ranked Cornell Law School No. 13, and the Johnson School No. 17. Weill Cornell came in at No. 18 for research and No. 58 for primary care. (May 4, 2009)
Edged attacks, wry humor and sharp differences on issues from taxes and state government corruption to gay marriage and abortion brought a Cornell audience, and viewers across the state, a lively first gubernatorial debate…
Donald L. Downing, professor emeritus at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., died Feb. 29. He helped start Cornell's enology extension program and the New York State Food Venture Center. (March 19, 2008)