Dominicana author Loida Maritza Pérez, a 1987 Cornell University alumna, is the keynote speaker at the Latino Studies Program's eighth annual Unity Dinner Friday, Oct. 20, at 5:30 p.m. in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.
Despite 27 low-temperature records falling throughout the Northeast in September, the average temperatures for the month were not far from normal -- making this the 30th coolest September in the last 103 years of records, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
"Privacy in the Age of Media" is the topic of a lecture at Cornell University by Tom Wicker, retired political columnist for The New York Times and one of America's most respected journalists, Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 4:30 p.m.
Christopher W. Clark, the engineer-biologist who heads the Bioacoustics Research Program at Cornell, has been named to the newly established Imogene Powers Johnson Senior Scientist chair at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
Professors Glenn Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick delivered the 2014 Olin Lecture, “The Way We Were – and Are: Cornell Professors and Students, 1940-Present,” June 6 to a packed Bailey Hall.
Restaurant patrons tend to spend more money when they select their items from menus that don't use dollar signs, reports a new Cornell study. (Dec. 9, 2009)
Cornell has entered into an agreement with Ruckus Network Inc. to provide students with access to the company's music and video download service. (Sept. 21, 2007)
We all know of great scholars, said President Hunter Rawlings at the Beacon Theatre on Manhattan's Upper West Side. And we all know of great teachers. But to find in one person, Walter LaFeber, the greatest of scholars and of teachers, he continued -- that is a remarkable thing.
A portable device can detect the presence of the anthrax bacterium in about one hour, report Cornell and University of Albany researchers who invented it. (July 29, 2011)