On the 28th anniversary of Robert Mugabe's rise to power in Zimbabwe, Robert Rotberg, president of the World Peace Foundation, conceded that he once was enamored with the Zimbabwean despot. (April 25, 2008)
Twenty-five scholars from the Caribbean, South America and Africa will examine the status of black studies programs abroad at a conference presented by the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell, Sept. 19 and 20.
R. Richard Geddes, associate professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University since 2002, will be heading to Washington, D.C., for a one-year term beginning Aug. 1 to serve as a senior staff economist with President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). Geddes, who was appointed in mid-March by the council members, will be one of 10 senior economists working with the three-member CEA, which analyzes and interprets economic developments, appraises the programs and activities of the government and advises the president on national economic policy. (April 15, 2004)
When it comes to candy, it is out of sight, out of the mouth, a Cornell University researcher finds.
The study finds that women eat more than twice as many Hershey Kisses when they are in clear containers on their desks than…
CU Winds continued its cultural outreach mission on its third biennial tour of Costa Rica, donating 95 instruments to five schools and performing with and teaching student musicians and conductors.
The WTO needs to revamp the way it resolves its disagreements, says Yasuhei Taniguchi, a 1964 Cornell Law graduate, in a speech at the Berger/Cornell International Law Journal symposium. (April 18, 2008)
Valerie Smith, director of African American Studies at Princeton University, will deliver a free public talk, "Memory and Civil Rights," Thursday, Oct. 9, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 258 of Goldwin Smith Hall on the Cornell University campus. Smith, the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton, specializes in feminism, film studies and African-American and American expressive culture and visual culture. She is the author of Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings and Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative and the editor of Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video, African American Writers and New Essays on Song of Solomon. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. (October 08, 2003)
"Dead man walking." Ray Krone heard this phrase three days a week when he was let out of his death row cell for two hours of solitary time outside. This was his chance to see or hear signs of an airplane overhead or a bird flying…
Matt Ackerson '09 won $2,500 as the winner of Entrepreneurship@Cornell's 'The Big Idea' contest for his Web site that offers college students downloadable coupons for discounts at local businesses.