NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Women's Voices From Union Square, an original musical play about the 14th Street square's role in American labor history, will be performed in New York City, May 1-12, in honor of Labor History Month. The play's author is Dorothy Fennell, a Cornell University labor historian, and its producer is the New York City extension office of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). Performances, which feature several off-Broadway actors, begin May Day (May 1) at the Tenement Museum's Theater on Orchard Street in Lower Manhattan and continue there and at other venues in New York City through Mother's Day (May 12). (April 25, 2002)
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)
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)
This week, Nov. 22-28, Cornell University Police joins police agencies across New York state in a "zero tolerance" wave of enforcement of state seat-belt laws. There will be checkpoints and saturation patrols aimed at ticketing drivers and front-seat passengers without seat belts and drivers who fail to properly restrain their child passengers. This Thanksgiving, the seat-belt enforcement push will continue to place a special emphasis on teens and young adults. These drivers, national statistics show, are the least likely to buckle up. Cornell Police continues to participate in these enforcement efforts because research shows that repeating waves of high-visibility enforcement saves lives. (November 23, 2004)
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.
NEW YORK -- At one time, cancer threatened their lives. But bone marrow and blood stem cell transplants changed their prognosis to one of smooth sailing and sunny skies. So a cruise around Manhattan on July 10 was a fitting celebration for leukemia survivors -- alumni of Weill Cornell Medical Center's Bone Marrow and Blood Stem Cell Transplant Program -- and their families, doctors and nurses.
The Johnson School's new Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute led a 10-day program with aspiring innovators from around the world in a collaboration with KAUST in Saudi Arabia. (March 31, 2011)
Hotel School business lecturer Paul Strebel discusses the pros and cons of converting individual retirement accounts (IRAs) into Roth IRAs, which are tax-free and easier to do this year.
Education is more effective when students feel their efforts make a difference in the real world, says Jack Elliott, who teaches a Cornell University course on environmental issues in design. That's why his students are helping a new National Park Service (NPS) building in the Grand Canyon get its "green" certification. His Ecological Literacy and Design class, the first such full-semester course in the nation, is teaching students how to implement the new environmental building standards set by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), a sustainable building-industry advocacy group. Pennsylvania State University has now followed with a similar course. (May 13, 2003)