Lionel Jospin, former prime minister of France (1997--2002), will deliver the keynote address for a three-day conference at Cornell University titled "Critical Anatomy of the New American Empire," co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Economy and Society (CSES) and the Society for the Humanities at Cornell (SHC). The conference runs Thursday, April 8, through Saturday, April 10. Jospin's talk, titled "The United States: Empire or Super Nation-State?" will be Thursday, April 8, at 4:30 p.m. in 200 Baker Hall. The talk and all conference events are free and open to the public. (April 02, 2004)
On April 20, Cornell graduate students and Weill Cornell Medicine students on Capitol Hill for a day of conversations on student loans, STEM education, immigration policy and the future of medicine.
Susan Holt has been named to the newly created position of chief development officer at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is responsible for creating a new Office of Institutional Advancement.
The Cornell Society of Women Engineers chapter received a Gold Award for Outstanding Collegiate Section at the organization's annual conference in October. (Nov. 2, 2011)
Cornell University Police have been awarded a grant from the New York State Governor's Traffic Safety Committee that will enable the purchase of car safety seats for the children of eligible students and employees. A demonstration of how to install a child safety seat correctly will be given on Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 11 a.m. in the parking lot at Barton Hall, where the safety-seat program will be announced. Officer George Sutfin will show how the seats should be installed for maximum safety. (February 12, 2003)
Sherman Cochran, the Hu Shih Professor of Chinese History Emeritus, presented his case that Hu Shih, Class of 1914, is the greatest Cornelian in a Nov. 20 talk on campus.
President Barack Obama presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the families of slain civil rights workers Michael Schwerner ’61, James Earl Chaney and Andrew Goodman in a ceremony Nov. 24 at the White House.
NEW YORK (Feb. 28, 2005) -- The Patient Self-Determination Act, passed by Congress in 1990, upholds the rights of patients to grant power-of-attorney or "proxy" status to a loved one when it comes to tough decisions on end-of-life care.In most cases, patients leave explicit instructions as to their wishes, should they become incapable of making these decisions themselves. But how tightly do patients really expect proxies to adhere to these instructions, given changes in prognosis? A new study from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center researchers suggests the pact between patient and proxy is much deeper and more flexible than previously thought.
Members of the Campus-Community Coalition discussed mental health strategies and services at Cornell, the Ithaca City School District, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College Sept. 22. (Sept. 24, 2010)