A Cornell conference considered issues that lead to fewer women completing doctoral degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. (June 24, 2011)
Cornell's efforts in renewable bioenergy, green building and sustainable living were honored at this year's Sustainable Tompkins' Annual Holiday Party Dec. 7 in Ithaca. (Dec. 10, 2008)
Choreographer and A.D. White Professor-at-Large William Forsythe's visit to campus March 3-11 will feature his choreographic installation 'Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time' in Rand Hall. (March 1, 2012)
"As a lobbyist, my job is advocacy. Like any advocate, if you have a good cause to promote, you are ahead of the game, and I have a great cause: strengthening and globalizing Cornell University," says Stephen Philip Johnson, assistant vice president for government relations at Cornell. Johnson has been advocating for Cornell to state or federal legislators since 1984. Now he is switching his base of operations to Washington, D.C.
Research presented at the humanities undergraduate showcase April 23 tackled the linguistics of lying, the architecture of Rio de Janeiro and violence against native Alaskan women, among other things.
Cornell and the Student Agencies Foundation have create eHub, slated to open in spring 2016, a 14,000 square foot entrepreneurship innovation center on College Avenue and in Kennedy Hall.
The demand for organic food in the United States has increased by approximately 200 percent over the past 10 years, a trend that is expected to accelerate in the coming decade. Organic farmers in New York state will be better able to capitalize on this trend thanks to three new grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture received by researchers in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
In a Cornell Perspectives piece, Vice President for Human Resources Mary George Opperman talks about how the university's staff contributes to Cornell's 'bold ideas and big aspirations.'
Events on campus this week include playwright Lauren Feldman '01 at the Schwartz Center, former Black Panther Charlotte O'Neal, talks on poetry and Vietnam, and the 36th Festival of Black Gospel.
Marc Thiessen, former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush, defended waterboarding and other 'enhanced interrogation techniques' in his talk on campus Oct. 27. (Oct. 28, 2011)