What can managers learn from Gandhi? What leadership lessons lurk behind Tarzan? Answers to those questions and more are found in Cornell Teambuilding's "Tarzan Meets Gandhi," a program for corporate clients at Cornell's Hoffman Challenge Course.
A conference titled "Affirmative Action and Higher Education in 2004 and Beyond" will take place Friday, April 23, at Cornell University. Legal scholars, sociologists and lawyers from Cornell and other universities will look at such issues as what the Supreme Court meant in its rulings last summer when it disallowed allotting points for race in a University of Michigan undergraduate admissions case, but seemed to permit considering race as a factor in a graduate admissions case at Michigan. Since that time, admissions offices across the country have been working to comply with the law, while still pursuing racial equality and diversity in the classes they admit. The conference seeks to share some of their strategies and answer questions that have arisen since the ruling. (April 20, 2004)
The more magazine ads smokers see for the nicotine patch and other quit-smoking aids, the more likely they are to try to quit smoking and be successful -- even without buying the products, finds a Cornell study. (July 23, 2007)
Speaking at the first of two public forums about the university's possible cost-saving measures, President David Skorton pledged to protect the university's 'human capital.' The second forum will be held Nov. 6. (Nov. 6, 2008)
David Duffield, founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of PeopleSoft, a developer of client/server business software, has been named Cornell's 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year.
A Cornell research group has discovered serious vulnerabilities in a widely-used peer-to-peer filesharing program. The weakness in LimeWire, a popular client for the Gnutella filesharing network.
Waitz Ngan was a sophomore at Cornell when she fell in love with the chimes. She was a medical student at Stony Brook when she fell in love with Adam Schuldt. Her engagement ring reflects both passions. (July 19, 2007)
Engineering students revived the tradition of creating a phoenix float to confront the dragon as it passed the Engineering Quad on Dragon Day 2008. (March 14, 2008)
Anthony Milner, the Basham Professor of Asian History and dean of the faculty of Asian Studies at Australian National University, will deliver the fifth Frank H. Golay Memorial Lecture.