Cornell University will celebrate its 137th Commencement on Sunday, May 29, with approximately 4,500 graduates receiving degrees at a ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. in Schoellkopf Stadium.
Harvard's Charles Ogletree delivered the Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture on 'The Combustible Mixture of Race, Gender, Religion and Politics: Lessons Learned From the 2008 Political Campaign,' Oct. 7 at the ILR School. (Oct. 8, 2008)
When Cornell's energy supplier, NYSEG, made an Aug. 8 request for a voluntary power reduction – to help avoid rolling blackouts during a midsummer heat wave in Tompkins County and New York state – members of the campus community responded immediately.
Researchers know that the longer your drive to work, the more likely you are to feel frustrated and irritated and to experience physiological stress.
The same is true for rail commuters, a Cornell researcher and his colleague…
Cornell researchers report on the club-winged manakin, the first flying birds known to have solid wing-bones, which allows these birds to produce courtship sounds. (June 13, 2012)
The CALS Green energy-saving contest saved an estimated 2 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions. Of the six buildings competing, Wing Hall in Geneva, N.Y., saved the most energy.
In such sports as basketball and baseball, U.S. national teams are the perennial "overdogs," invariably liked by Americans and hated by the rest of the world. But in soccer, the world's most popular spectator sport, the U.S. Men…
Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center is sponsoring a benefit concert by Sweet Honey In The Rock, the internationally renowned Grammy Award-winning a cappella ensemble. The concert is at Ithaca's Historic State Theatre Sunday, April 17, 2005, at 7 p.m. (April 12, 2005)
The Cornell women's ice hockey team has snazzy new uniforms, thanks to the creativity of a class of undergraduate students in textiles and apparel in the university's College of Human Ecology.
Vice President Al Gore and Andrew Cuomo, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, paid a special visit to Amsterdam, N.Y., Sept. 30 to release a preliminary report on efforts to jump-start the historic barge canal region's stalled economy.