The 20th anniversary of Akwe:kon - Cornell's 'Indian country' - was celebrated on campus Sept. 9; speakers included Cornell President David Skorton. (Sept. 13, 2011)
The fifth annual Educator Professional Development Day and its 110 workshop offerings attracted some 1,200 teachers from the Ithaca, Dryden and Lansing school districts. (March 24, 2009)
Stephen Nelson, Tariq Thachil, Karrie Koesel and Samatha Majic, all Ph.D. '09 in government, have earned top prizes for their dissertations from the American Political Science Association. (July 21, 2010)
The ILR School's Northeast ADA Center is a clearinghouse for information on the Americans with Disabilities Act, which turns 20 on July 26. (July 19, 2010)
A group of Muslim alumni have formed the Diwan Foundation, an initiative to enhance the quality of Muslim life on campus. Their first project is to establish and fund a Muslim chaplaincy. (Feb. 17, 2011)
A new study says that mothers with full-time jobs spend less time on cooking and other chores related to their kids' diet and exercise compared to stay-at-home moms, and dads are not picking up the slack. (Aug. 27, 2012)
Cornell Library's vault contains a host of treasures, including two Nobel medals, Ezra Cornell's safe, and a voting machine from Florida that was used in the contested 2000 presidential election. (March 1, 2012)
Law professor Steven Shiffrin spoke about his new book, 'The Religious Left and Church-State Relations,' at a panel discussion in his honor in Myron Taylor Hall Oct. 30. (Nov. 11, 2009)
Even with strict financial constraints, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica are tackling revitalization, Cornell researchers and city officials said at a recent regional development conference.
Faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences are invited to propose project to digitize collections that will support visual learning, teaching and research. (Feb. 2, 2011)