After opening the White House strategy session on youth violence on Monday, President Bill Clinton called on Cornell's James Garbarino to provide an introductory overview of the issue to the 60 invited participants.
In the absence of a specific avian flu vaccine, could antiviral drugs thwart a pandemic should the virus spread from birds to humans? One person with a detailed knowledge of that subject is Dr. Anne Moscona, an infectious-disease expert at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Winning ideas in the Cornell Hospitality Business Plan Competition included a Mediterranean fast food chain based in London and a food truck that makes crepes. Winners were chosen April 6.
Composer and Cornell alumnus Steve Reich and senior Maria Dizzia have been selected as the first recipients of two new university awards to recognize excellence in the arts. The Cornell University Alumni Award for Distinction in the Arts will be formally presented to Reich in February 1998 at a campus program. Dizzia will receive the Student Arts Award.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees, at its regular meeting March 10, approved the following tuition rates for the New York state statutory colleges for 2000-01.
The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, hosted by the School of Hotel Administration, recently gave 11 disabled vets skills and training in hospitality entrepreneurship. (Nov. 27, 2012)
The six-month search for Cornell University's 12th president has ended with the announcement that David J. Skorton, president of the University of Iowa.
Martha L. Dewey, co-founder and artistic director of the Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble, was killed in an automobile accident June 26. She was 55. (June 29, 2009)
Provost Kent Fuchs endorsed a committee report Oct. 20 recommending significant changes to the Cornell Council for the Arts' mission, organization and focus.
A new book by Daniel R. Altschuler, director of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, makes a big bang itself as it creatively attempts to answer some of these questions while covering topics ranging from astronomy to physics, and paleontology to geology.