Writer and photographer Gordon Sander '73 celebrates his multifaceted relationship with Cornell in "My World," a photography exhibit on display through June 16 in the Fine Arts Library in Sibley Dome -- the largest retrospective…
Dr. Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, will hold two lectures among other events during his first campus visit to Cornell.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Unless new partnerships and less partisanship occur, America's status as the world leader of technological innovation is seriously threatened, warned authors of a report released by the Council on Competitiveness during a press conference in Washington, D.C., on April 10. The report, Endless Frontier, Limited Resources: U.S. R&D Policy for Competitiveness, is the result of a 15-month assessment of U.S. research and development that drew on the insights of 80 of the nation's leading scientists, engineers, educators and entrepreneurs. The council project was co-chaired by Gary L. Tooker, chief executive officer of Motorola Inc., and Frank H.T. Rhodes, president emeritus of Cornell University and chairman of the National Science Board.
Pulitzer Prize--winning author and Civil War historian James M. McPherson will speak at Cornell on Tuesday, April 29, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall.
Science educators at Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences hope dog-lovers can sit-and-stay by their computers for six weeks. That's how long it takes to complete a new home-study course on canine genetics via the Internet.
Speciosa Wandira, vice president of Uganda from 1994 to 2003, gave an unusually blunt appraisal about the state of her country and her region while speaking on campus Nov. 14. (Nov. 16, 2007)
Cats with the annoying habit of spraying urine on vertical surfaces are needed at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine for a clinical trial of a new treatment.
Cornell women are well-represented in the 'Ladies Home Journal 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century.' During the meeting, which took place two months before the death of Princess Diana, Norton and the other advisers reduced the original master list to about 150 names.
A suicide-prevention expert and three other panelists spoke at forums April 4 about the rationale for permanent bridge barriers or nets, which Cornell and the city of Ithaca are studying. (April 7, 2011)