"On the admissions front, it's been an extremely busy season, the busiest in Cornell's history," reported President Hunter Rawlings to the Cornell Board of Trustees May 26. Not only have applications jumped 35 percent in the past…
The fifth annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony at Cornell was awarded to the campus Multicultural Living Learning Unit at a ceremony April 7 in Willard Straight Hall.
A new survey of human resource managers has found that companies' health, life and disability insurance costs rarely rise because of hiring employees with disabilities, but that attitudinal stereotypes about people with disabilities are still pervasive in the workplace.
Theodore Bikel, an Emmy award-winning actor and former leader of Actors' Equity Association, the pre-eminent U.S. union for stage actors, is the pre-Labor Day speaker at Cornell University Aug. 31.
Cornell University President Jeffrey S. Lehman announced today (Aug. 29) that he has appointed Barbara L. Krause to the position of senior advisor to the president, effective Sept. 1. In that position she will advise the president on a wide variety of issues related to the university and will accept special assignments from the president as needed. (August 29, 2003)
Citigroup's strategy for flourishing in an era of increased competition from all corners of the world is the topic of Thomas W. Jones' Durland Lecture on April 8.
A Nov. 2 trip to the United Nations helped increase awareness of diversity among students and stimulated discussion of about international problems, says Professor N'Dri Assie-Lumumba, who organized the trip. (Nov. 7, 2007)
When the Cornell Program of Computer Graphics was launched in the early 1970s, it was considered a major achievement to start with drawings of a building and create a computer-generated image of, say, Rhodes Hall. Today, computer…
Playwright Christopher Durang will be among the participants in the symposium 'Wendy Wasserstein: An Uncommon Woman,' Feb. 23-25 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. (Feb. 20, 2007)
Associate Professor Amy Villarejo spoke on 'TV Time, or Thughts on TV' at the Society for the Humanities annual invitational lecture Feb. 15. (Feb. 20, 2007)