Attorneys Richard Burr and Mandy Welch, who six months ago pleaded for Timothy McVeigh's life in the death penalty phase of the Oklahoma City bombing trial, will speak at the Cornell University Law School Nov. 14. Their presentation, "Defending McVeigh's Life: A Conversation with Timothy McVeigh's Lawyers," will begin at 3 p.m. in the MacDonald Moot Courtroom of Myron Taylor Hall.
For these seniors, a Cornell education included submarines, parachutes and fighter planes. But ROTC is a lot more than action and adventure; it hones leadership, teamwork and time management skills. (May 26, 2010)
Patsy Brannon, dean of the College of Human Ecology and professor of nutrition at Cornell University since 1999, today (July 29) announced her decision to return to teaching and research when her five-year term as dean ends May 30, 2004. She is a member of the faculty in the Division of Nutritional Sciences. She will take a year's sabbatical and will return full time to the faculty July 1, 2005. (July 29, 2003)
SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, will take flight May 25 along with the Cornell-built FORCAST (the Faint Object InfraRed Camera for the SOFIA Telescope). (May 24, 2010)
Engineers for a Sustainable World, a nonprofit organization based at Cornell, sponsored students to work on engineering projects in developing countries this summer.
Having his acclaimed book of literary criticism, "The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition," ranked as No. 25 in the Modern Library's list of the 100 best nonfiction books written in English during the past 100 years doesn't seem to have fazed M.H. (Mike) Abrams.
The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca, March 10-12. The full board will have a brief open session beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, March 12, in B09 Sage Hall on the Cornell campus.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Food product development starts with an idea, then moves into the food lab and ends up as a consumer good for use in a kitchen. For the Cornell University Product Development Team, what started as a good idea quickly moved into three kitchens. Armed with borrowed chef equipment, pastry bags and a plastic ruler, the team prepared prototype biscuits in graduate student Sarah Douglas' kitchen. Their ultimate goal: to make "Stir-Ins," a cookie- and chocolate-based flavorant to make freshly brewed coffee more ambient and aromatic. Coffee lovers should perk up to note: With this product, the team is one of six finalists in the prestigious Institute of Food Technologists' (IFT) Student Association 1996 Product Development Competition, held in New Orleans in June. Team members are from both Cornell's Ithaca, N.Y., campus and Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y.
A "Chordash-built home" is synonymous to many Ithacans as a home of quality. Chordash Builders, which constructed and remodeled numerous homes in Ithaca from the 1950s to the early 1970s, was owned by Michael A. Chordash and his wife.
Events on campus as Cornell heads into summer include Olin Library's 50th birthday, an exhibition honoring the career of Zevi Blum, a lecture on fly fishing, and several free lectures and concerts. (June 2, 2011)