Fourteen high school students from Cesar Chavez Charter High School for Public Policy in Washington, D.C., and a few of their parents, will travel to Ithaca, N.Y., to meet with a group of urban planning students and their professors at Cornell.
To help Cornell University celebrate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day 2003, John Cloud, a geographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, D.C., will speak on "Layered Truths: Uncovering the Complex Histories of Geographic Information Systems," Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 2 p.m. on the second floor of the university's Albert R. Mann Library on campus. It is free and open to the public. Cloud will explain how GIS emerged and discuss the cartography it displaced. Also, he will examine how the history of GIS will contribute to the use of the system in future applications. (November 14, 2003)
Academic leaders have announced the creation of the new Center for Community Engaged Learning and Research and have named Richard Kiely as its director. (Oct. 3, 2011)
The Cornell University Council for the Art has awarded more than $11,000 to 26 Cornell students and staff members to support a variety of art projects, including fashion design and photography.
When the Cornell Program of Computer Graphics was launched in the early 1970s, it was considered a major achievement to start with drawings of a building and create a computer-generated image of, say, Rhodes Hall. Today, computer…
A team of Cornell professors have helped Rousse University, Bulgaria, develop a master's degree program and off-campus certificate program in regional development. (Oct. 22, 2007)
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered a funny and thoughtful Convocation address May 26 that drew historical parallels between the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 and today. (May 26, 2012)
Robert Constable will step down as dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science when his second five-year term ends, June 30, 2009. (June 11, 2008)
Provost Kent Fuchs and VP Elmira Mangum are rolling out the framework of a new budget model to the campus. The model is more streamlined, consistent and transparent in allocation of resources.