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)
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.
'Science, Journalism and Politics: When Cultures Collide' will be the topic for National Public Radio (NPR) science correspondent Richard Harris in his keynote address April 9 at 4:30 p.m.
In 1986, Ronald D. Moore '86 received an honorable mention for his entry on 'Star Trek' literature in Cornell University Library's student book collection contest. He is now a producer for hit TV show 'Battlestar Galactica.' (March 11, 2008)
Binge drinking is the target of a new media campaign to be developed over the next three years by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Cornell and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
This week a 32-year-old Guatemalan man is getting a second chance to gain his freedom -- and possibly save his life -- thanks to the help of Cornell Law School's Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic. (July 10, 2007)
Alumni from Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are invited to participate in the second Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumni Forum on Saturday, April 18. More than two dozen classes will be available for the Cornell alumni and their guests.
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.
David J. Gross, the Frederick W. Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics and director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB, will give three talks on 'The Search for a Theory of Fundamental Reality.'
Patsy M. Brannon, Cornell Ph.D. '79 and chair and professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at the University of Maryland, has been nominated as dean of the College of Human Ecology.