Betsy Cooper of Amherst, N.Y., a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell, is one of 76 students selected from a national pool of 635 candidates to win a prestigious Truman Scholarship.
Cornell's annual Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference will be held Tuesday, Dec. 11, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., hosted by Cornell's Department of Applied Economics and Management.
Rosa A. Clemente, who received a master of professional studies degree from Cornell in 2002, has been named the 2008 vice presidential candidate by the Green Party. Her running mate is Cynthia McKinney. (July 16, 2008)
It's a student takeover of the most welcome variety -- the annual fete called Hotel Ezra Cornell on the Cornell campus. On Friday, April 20, Statler Hotel managers will hand over the ceremonial key to the on-campus facility to directors, and for the rest of the weekend all hotel services and events will be handled by more than 400 student.
Fostering entrepreneurship at Cornell not only includes courses, lectures and other events in Ithaca, but also a national network of alumni entrepreneurs. (April 3, 2007)
Slammin' Yamz! is the winner of the annual Food Science 101 ice cream contest. The yam-flavored ice cream has beta carotene, molasses, marshmallow swirl, cinnamon and nutmeg and contains less than 4 percent fat. (Dec. 3, 2008)
The complexities of the mind and human brain require an equally complex field of study, involving philosophers and linguists connecting with neurobiologists, psychologists and computer scientists. The Cognitive Studies Program at…
The Department of Design and Environmental Analysis has been ranked the best program in the East and second nationwide in the annual survey conducted by DesignIntelligence magazine. (March 29, 2007)
In the developed world, societies enjoy abundant diets more varied now than at any other time in history. That's in stark contrast to the developing world where millions of people confront profound food insecurity every day.
We could all use a little comic relief, and who better than John Cleese and company to provide it? And what better date than April Fools' Day? Cleese returns to Cornell University in his role as an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large to celebrate the life and works of W.C. Fields -- the clown prince of 20th century American comedy who Cleese says has been neglected and forgotten. Cleese's accomplice for this, his fourth visit as an A.D. White professor, is James Curtis, author of a new biography of Fields, simply titled W.C. Fields: A Biography (Knopf, 2003). (March 25, 2003)