Cornell has added a new emergency contact database to its 'Who I Am' electronic directory, and all students are urged to sign up. Faculty and staff will be able to fill out emergency information later this fall. (Aug. 23, 2007)
Events on campus this week include a roundtable discussion of art repatriation, Indian cooking secrets at the Plantations, a classic American Cinema series, and Ke$ha concert ticket sales.
More than 45 Cornell scholars will be among the 4,600 sociologists sharing their recent research at the annual American Sociological Association meetings, Aug. 20-23. The research addresses society's most pressing problems.
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin has been recommended as the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her graduate alma mater, it was announced today, May 28. (May 28, 2008)
'Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class' by the ILR School's Jefferson Cowie has won the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. (April 19, 2011)
Bird enthusiasts and their families are invited to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's community open house June 21 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 159 Sapsucker Woods Road. The open house is being held to celebrate the lab's new, $26.5 million Imogene Powers Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity. The facility is home to almost 200 part- and full-time staff working in the lab's programs on citizen science, education, conservation and bioacoustics research. The building also houses the lab's Macaulay Library, home to the world's largest collection of natural sounds, and the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates, which is valuable to both researchers and educators. (June 09, 2003)