To engage teens in STEM fields through fashion design, Cornell offered a weeklong course, “Smart Clothing, Smart Girls: Engineering through Apparel Design,” July 14-18 to 33 middle school girls.
Although Cornell's Solar Decathlon team did not fare as well this year as in 2005, the biennial competition held on the National Mall last week proved to be an invaluable experience for team members, students said. (Oct. 22, 2007)
Porus Olpadwala, a city planning professor at Cornell University, has accepted the deanship of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He had been interim dean of the college since July 1998.
On its first-ever Giving Day, March 25, the university received donations from more than 9,600 people totaling $6.97 million dollars. The gifts, mostly made online, came from people in every U.S. state and 52 countries on six continents.
Students in the Cornell Urban Scholars Program in New York City this summer relate some of their experiences working with agencies and nonprofits to alleviate poverty. (Aug. 25, 2008)
Richard Baker '88, a classic American success story in real estate who gave $11 million to Cornell's Program in Real Estate earlier this year, spoke on campus Oct. 23. (Oct. 31, 2012)
Representatives from various California digital arts and film production companies, including DreamWorks, will meet with representatives of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning this weekend to discuss the merits of a new academic program on digital arts.
Events this week include student art exhibits, a conference on exile, projects from a healing plants course, a veterans' resource fair and the return of the Internet Cat Video Festival.
Events on campus this week include photography exhibit, debate on Obama, Rubberdance Group, several book signings at the Cornell Store, literary luncheon, history walk, and lectures on whales and rice. (Oct. 14, 2010)