In the last decade of the 20th century, we saw a virtual cottage industry of books and films on the Holocaust, everything from an unexpurgated 'Diary of Anne Frank' to Roberto Benigni's Oscar-winning tragicomic film 'Life Is Beautiful.'
The director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center hopes to launch the center into a nationally known premium social sciences research center that sponsors groundbreaking work on human development and economic and family demography.
The 2010 Perkins Prize for interracial harmony and understanding went to the Cornell Farmworker Program. Cornell IthaQatar Student Ambassadors and Cornell Urban Mentor Initiative received honorable mentions. (April 29, 2010)
The four seed grants and four small grants were awarded to promote research on foreign policy and international development as well as international studies in general.
Richard Meier, architect of the Getty Center heads a list of distinguished artists, educators and critics who will offer insight into America's cultural climate and artistic professions during a symposium Oct. 4 and 5 at Cornell.
Cornell University's undergraduate business program in the Department of Applied Economics and Management (AEM) was accredited Jan. 9 by AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The course becomes only the second general undergraduate business program in the Ivy League, after the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, to earn accreditation. AEM is a department within Cornell's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Accreditation provides recognition of the content and quality of its business program. The designation means that a peer group of scholars has examined the undergraduate business program in AEM and has approved it. (January 18, 2002)
Topics ranging from contemplative gardens to urban jungles fill the Fall 2004 Cornell Plantations Lecture Series at Cornell. The long-running series moves to a new location in the renovated Alice Statler Auditorium of Statler Hall.
As the number of species declines due to habitat loss, pollution and climate change, the risk of catching infectious diseases may rise for humans, animals and plants. (Dec. 2, 2010)
A team of Cornell students and faculty will receive up to $1 million in Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency funding to develop a vehicle capable of driving itself on city streets.