This semester a horticulture class prepared for a spring break trip to Belize -- not to hit the beach but to show how school gardens can enrich curricula and serve as a foundation for community education programs. (April 3, 2009)
Do the humanities have to be useful? As you might expect, Cornell faculty members and students can concoct a wide range of creative responses to a question like that.
Eighteen essays about the humanities have been published in a…
Terry Plater is the new associate dean for academic affairs in Cornell's Graduate School. She assumed her position in January 1999, succeeding Eleanor Reynolds, who retired in the fall 1998 semester.
A symposium Sept. 14 and 15 on campus will honor John W. Reps, Cornell professor emeritus in the Department of City and Regional Planning, as he approaches his 80th birthday.
Events this week include classical and jazz concerts, a PBS film on deer at Plantations, a German studies conference and an exhibition, open house and film for May Day.
Kayoko Hirata '11 has been named one of eight students in the United States to join the executive committee of the Japan-America Student Conference, which promotes Japanese-American relations. (Feb. 24, 2009)
Cornell University will celebrate its 138th Commencement Weekend Saturday, May 27, and Sunday, May 28. On Saturday at noon, Martin Luther King III will give the Senior Convocation Address, and on Sunday, beginning at 11 a.m.,…
More Cornellians live in the Northeast corridor than anywhere else in the world. The Division of Alumni Affairs and Development is expanding its New York City focus to better reach them. (May 26, 2010)
Cornell will honor 35 secondary school teachers, some from as far away as Russia, Singapore and India, May 26. The teachers were selected by Cornell's Merrill Presidential Scholars program.