Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel spoke of faith, hope, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the power of children, and the value of memory and 'bearing witness' in a talk April 29. (April 30, 2010)
Two Cornell students spent part of last summer delivering rugged, child-friendly laptop computers to a school in Senegal and showing teachers how to use them. (Sept. 30, 2009)
Debora Kuller Shuger, professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles, will visit Cornell in April to deliver a lecture titled "Glutinous Gums and the Stream of Consciousness: The Theology of Milton's Comus."
Arizona Senate Bill 1070 has seriously affected Native Americans, said panelists Nov. 3 on campus, pointing out that it has legitimized racism and triggered more violence against Native people. (Nov. 9, 2010)
Venture capitalist Lee Pillsbury '69 and sustainability advocate Mathis Wackernagel have been appointed as Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professors at Cornell for three-year terms. (April 26, 2010)
The founding of Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center followed years of civil rights advances and 1960s campus activism, as black students demanded recognition of their history and culture. (Sept. 24, 2009)
PASADENA, Calif. -- Since the beginning of January the Cornell University team running the panoramic cameras, or Pancams, on the two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, has been largely functioning out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. That's where instructions are uplinked, or sent, to the two roving vehicles. But as the mission ages -- in April NASA extended its life until at least mid-September -- demand is growing for space at JPL for other missions, such as Deep Impact and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (Both missions also have Cornell involvement; the first studies the interior of a comet, the second will get even higher-resolution orbital data on Mars.) In addition, the Mars science team members need to get back to their universities. (July 14, 2004)
A white-tailed deer that had been frequenting a ledge in Fall Creek Gorge on the Cornell campus has left and has not been spotted since Wednesday morning, March 20. Cornell experts in the College of Veterinary Medicine, the Department of Natural Resources and in the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation all agreed that the deer should be left alone to find its way out.
More than 80 percent of farmland in the United States is managed by farmers whose operations fall between small-scale direct markets and large, consolidated farms. These farmers increasingly are left out of the food system, and if current trends continue, the fear is that these farms will disappear in the next decade or two.