Cornell's Engineering Cooperative Education Program gives students an opportunity to work a semester and a summer for pay with an engineering employer to get a taste of the real world.
Several members of the Cornell community are playing key roles in the 1997 United Way campaign on and off campus this fall. Their efforts, which started a few months ago, are aimed at raising $1.46 million.
Yao Yuan Sze, a retired Seattle aerospace engineer, has endowed the directorship of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell in honor of his father.
Displaying the magnificence and grace of 1874 Victorian landmark outside, Sage Hall - the new home of the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell - is, inside, a state-of-the-art, fully networked management education center.
A new study of upstate New York's economy by three Cornell University faculty members confirms that the region continues to lag behind much of the rest of the nation and, as a result, is losing its best and brightest young people to regions with more better-paying jobs in vibrant urban centers. The only bright spots in the otherwise bleak report are higher education and health care. The report quantifies how the region has never fully rebounded from the deindustrialization that began in the 1970s and continues to the present. Today, upstate remains far behind the national average in income and job growth, with average wages rising little more than 2 percent from 1980 to 2000, compared with 15 percent in the rest of the nation. However, the report also shows that jobs in the region are beginning to diversify -- a positive change. The researchers call for concerted state policy efforts backed by federal support to spur further economic health. (March 18, 2004)
The speech Nelson Mandela gave when he was released from South Africa's Robben Island prison; articles in African newspapers about the AIDS epidemic; favorite stories of Nigerian schoolchildren: These are some of the primary source materials about Africa on a new Cornell outreach Website.
Former ambassador Paul Wolfowitz, Johns Hopkins University, will discuss "Back to the Future? Will This Century Be as Bloody as the Last?" Friday, June 9.
Events on campus this week include: a walking contest, Emerging Artists, former Brazilian president, poet Paul Muldoon, Union Days, museum reception, urban agenda, Glissant and sustainability month.
Up to 4,000 people of all ages are expected in Ithaca this summer to indulge in the smorgasbord of classes, conferences and other programs that makes Cornell one of the nation's hottest destinations for summer study. The theme of Cornell Summer Sessions '97, "Language: Communication and Understanding," was chosen to coincide with a major six-week linguistics institute being hosted at Cornell for the first time.