Library-sponsored student awards range from fun contests to formal recognition of accomplishments.
T-shirt contest
The top contender for "fun" awards is the Fine Arts Library's (FAL) T-shirt Contest. The goal of the competition…
Scientists from Weill Medical College of Cornell have discovered the mechanism by which a renewable source of autologous organ-specific adult bone marrow stem cells may be recruited. While embryonic stem cellsthat is, stem cells derived from embryoshave been the subject of much recent attention and ethical debate, stem cells derived from adult bone marrow may prove to be even more suitable for therapeutic purposes.
One of our country's most unique features is its racial, ethnic and cultural diversity. But America also is characterized by its substantial and persistent social and economic inequality.
ARECIBO, P.R. -- For the first time since the creation of Bring Your Child to Work Day, a group of Arecibo Observatory parents in Puerto Rico did just that April 27.
The initiative provided an opportunity for children to attend…
Speaking Jan. 19 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Celebration in Ithaca, professor Locksley Edmondson said that Barack Obama's election does not indicate that America has become a 'post-racial society.' (Jan. 20, 2009)
Students from 11 top-tier U.S. business schools will compete in the second MBA Stock Pitch Challenge next Thursday and Friday, April 1 and 2, at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. The competition will showcase the stock picking and presentation skills of MBA students who hope to be hired as stock analysts after they graduate. The first-place team will receive a $3,000 award and the second-place team an award of $1,500. (March 26, 2004)
The Department of Theatre, Film and Dance is presenting a public lecture by Jennifer Tipton, Cornell Class of 1958, one of the theater world's most distinguished lighting designers.
Some 300 students delivered energy saving bags of treats to 5,000 Tompkins County households, while 900 others worked at nonprofit and public organizations, all as part of Into the Streets. (Nov. 3, 2010)
Twinkle, twinkle little pulsar is much more than a nursery rhyme to radio astronomers. They have found a way to use the twinkling to measure the velocity and distance of these speeding neutron stars that are up above the world so high that they have escaped from the galaxy.
Filmmaker Doug Block '75 brings his film-festival hit, '51 Birch Street,' a personal documentary about his parents' marriage, to Cornell Cinema Oct. 24.