Events on campus include free summer concerts, new films from the United States and Italy, a history-filled tour of Cornell Plantations, and an international keyboard competition. (Aug. 1, 2011)
Cornell senior David L. Kaplan, of Swampscott, Mass., is the only Cornell student this year to win the prestigious Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship.
Two Cornell professors are developing a handheld detector that will give health care workers in the developing world speedy results to identify pathogens in the field. (Jan. 30, 2012)
On Monday, April 16, Ambassador Alon Pinkas, the Counsel General of Israel, will give two talks titled "The Middle East After Israeli Elections: Thoughts on the Past and Prospects for the Future" in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
Stephen J. "Doc" Roberts, who as an undergraduate, led Cornell University's polo team to its first national championship and then, as a veterinarian, coached the university's polo team to eight national championships, died in Bath, N.Y., Jan. 21, 2005, of heart failure. He was 89. Roberts coached the Cornell polo team between 1947 and 1972, and his teams participated in 14 national championships, winning eight in 25 years. (The winning years: 1955, '56, '59, '61, '62, '63 and '66.) He was the captain of the team when he was an undergraduate. (January 27, 2005)
Cornell's applied economics and management program was ranked 10th in BusinessWeek's Top 50 undergraduate business schools, released March 8. (March 9, 2007)
In response to the May 9 Cornell Perspectives article, "Why new U.S. biofuel legislation is on track to waste billions of tax dollars, while subsidizing oil consumption" by Harry de Gorter and David Just:
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Franoise Gaspard, professor of sociology at the famed Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (School of Higher Education in Social Sciences) in Paris, will give two free and open lectures Oct. 21-22 at Cornell on women in politics in France.