Yolanda Tseng, a senior in the College of Engineering at Cornell University, has been awarded a 2003 Winston Churchill Scholarship for a year of graduate study at Cambridge University in England.
President Hunter Rawlings briefed smiling members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, at its final meetings May 25 and 26, on three key areas in which the university has made great strides over the past academic year: research, admissions and faculty and staff salaries.
A series of Cornell studies in the 1970s and '80s showed that a nurse home-visiting program for low-income women pregnant with their first child can help alleviate some problems caused by poverty. (April 16, 2009)
Filmmaker Neko Celik led a group of middle and high school students in making socio-political documentaries at a Cornell workshop Feb. 11. 'They have the cameras,' Celik said. 'They have the power.'
Arguably the two most important figures in history will be the topic of a lecture at Cornell on April 18, given by noted historian Francis E. Peters. He will be discussing not the Jesus of faith, but the Jesus of history and how historians approach both him and Muhammad.
Children from the Onondaga Nation took a tour of Cornell's Dairy Plant, July 24. Their visit was an extension of an after-school science program run by Professor Carl Batt. (July 29, 2008)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Arguably the two most important figures in history will be the topic of a lecture at Cornell University on Thursday, April 18, given by noted historian Francis E. Peters at 4:30 p.m. in Room D of Goldwin Smith Hall. Peters, a professor of Near Eastern languages and literatures and history at New York University, will give a University Lecture titled "Jesus and Muhammad: An Essay in Comparative Historiography." Peters will deliver this semester's final University Lecture, the most prestigious forum Cornell offers visitors who come to campus to deliver a single address. His talk is free and open to the public.
From new filtration technologies for their water plants to changes in fundraising efforts, AguaClara team members shared their latest innovations, insights and experiences at a Feb. 7 presentation. (Feb. 9, 2011)
The Festival of Black Gospel at Cornell University will celebrate its 25th anniversary with 7 p.m. gospel performances Friday, Feb. 16, and Saturday, Feb. 17, in Bailey Hall on campus.
Professors William White and Kosali Simon contrasted elements of two health care bills that propose to expand health coverage using a combination of incentives and penalties. (Dec. 8, 2009)