Almost 600 high school juniors and seniors will trade in a summer of work or sun-and-surf for the academic demands of Cornell's Summer College -- the nation's oldest such program, now in its 36th year -- which begins June 28. "The attraction here is to test the waters in an Ivy League institution, to get credit and to practice going to college before beginning freshman year," said Summer College Director Abby Eller.
English professors discussed the work and influence of poet A.R. Ammons and alumni Thomas Pynchon, Loida Maritza Perez and Manuel Munoz in a scholarly panel on Cornell writers March 4. (March 10, 2009)
Angela Gonzales, associate professor of development sociology, frequently returns to her childhood home, the Hopi Indian reservation in Arizona, to conduct cancer research and offer education. (Aug. 27, 2012)
Computer Policy and Law Conference at Cornell Aug. 6-8 will help educators deal with cyberspace issues. How much freedom should an educational institution give its students to use cyberspace?
The committee for the 2002 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is calling for proposals from local organizations and agencies. Proposals are due by April 12.
Stephen Cole, professor of theater for almost 40 years at Cornell, will retire this year, leaving a legacy on campus and in the Ithaca theater scene. (Feb. 21, 2008)
Gene Cretz, the first U.S. ambassador to Libya in more than 36 years, discussed diplomacy and U.S.-Libyan relations with about 100 students and faculty members in the Plant Sciences Building Oct. 7. (Oct. 8, 2009)
Barclay G. Jones, Cornell professor of city and regional planning and regional science who was a noted expert on protecting historic structures from earthquake damage and on the social and economic devastation of national disasters, died May 26 at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, N.Y.
Novelist Junot Dâaz, M.F.A. '95, and Cornell faculty members considered the growing Latino community and the readiness of the arts to address immigration at a panel discussion Feb. 19. (Feb. 25, 2009)