With a plan to harness the wind, sun, water and the Earth’s heat, a panel from the Senior Leaders Climate Action Group explained to the Cornell community Oct. 31 how the campus could become carbon neutral by 2035.
Speaking April 5, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof urged audience members to pressure China to use its influence in Sudan to end the genocide and to pressure the U.S. government to act more proactively. (April 8, 2008)
Cornell's Got Talent drew six contestants who provided a wide variety of performances, from opera to jug-band, swing-dancing to Indian bollywood, keyboard and guitar.
Whether mom's golden child or her black sheep, siblings who sense that their mother consistently favors or rejects one child over others are more likely to show depressive symptoms as adults. (June 24, 2010)
Cornell Law School alumni have contributed a total of $8 million, including $5 million from alumnus Jack G. Clarke, to found a business law institute to be housed within Myron Taylor Hall on campus. (Nov. 2, 2007)
David Kaczynski, executive director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty and brother of 'Unabomber' Theodore Kaczynski, spoke March 8 about the issues plaguing capital punishment in the United States. (March 20, 2007)
LGBT activists Brittany Ferrell and Alexis Templeton spoke on marginalization of people of color in a civil rights movement dominated by heterosexual men and the need for female leadership.
In honor of its four decades, the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell University is throwing something of a scholarly celebration for itself this month.
On Jan. 13, Kenneth Brown '74 and his family attended the dedication of a new water plant in Ojojona, Honduras, built with his gift of nearly $30,000. The plant was designed by Cornell engineering students. (Feb. 15, 2007)
For the Northeast, it has been hotter than ever. The upstate New York cities of Syracuse, Buffalo, Albany, Ithaca, Utica and Binghamton have had their hottest June and July ever officially recorded, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.