Iconic hip-hop DJ Rich Medina '92 will teach Cornell Adult University's first-ever class on hip-hop, July 10-16. His real-life experience in the hip-hop community will enrich the class, he said.
A dialogue between President David Skorton and industrialist Ratan Tata, Cornell's Entrepreneur of the Year, headlined the Oct. 12 event, which drew more than 350 attendees and featured 21 speakers and panelists. (Oct. 18, 2012)
Cornell University is a state of mind, and both a beginning and a destination, much like the "Ithaka" of C.P. Cavafy's poem about Ulysses' journey home, said President Elizabeth Garrett at her inauguration as Cornell's 13th president.
A virtual reality project, co-created by an audio producer at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, replaces the sounds of today's urban Manhattan with scientifically accurate audio representations of the island in 1609.
The Office of the University Ombudsman marked its 50th anniversary in 2019, serving as a sounding board for Cornell community members to come with issues large or small.
Dan Huttenlocher has been named Cornell vice provost and dean of the NYC tech campus; Cathy Dove has been named vice president; and Technion's Craig Gotsman will lead the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute.
Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Andrea Berloff ’95 makes her directing debut with “The Kitchen,” starring Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elizabeth Moss; it comes to theaters Aug. 9.
Dr. Barbara Hempstead will become dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences on Jan. 14. She succeeds Dr. Carl Nathan, who is completing his planned two-year term.