West Avenue, between Campus Road and University Avenue on the Cornell University campus, will be closed to traffic from Monday, June 30, at 6 a.m. to Sunday, July 6, at 6 p.m., according to Cornell's Department of Utilities.
About 450 faculty members attended a special meeting March 9 to listen to - and ask questions of - President David Skorton, who discussed the university's financial situation.
Lawrence Halprin, a landscape architect in San Francisco whose work helped shape modern landscape design, is the winner of Cornell University's 1999 Distinguished Alumni in the Arts Award.
Anthony Vidler, professor of art history and architecture and chair of the Department of Art History at the University of California at Los Angeles, has been nominated as dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University.
Celebrated poet Ruth Stone will read from her works at Cornell for the Creative Writing Program's biannual Chasen Poetry Reading Thursday, April 19, at 4 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
Josephine Allen, professor emerita of policy analysis and management, was the first African-American woman to receive tenure at Cornell. Retiring after 32 years, she looks back at her career. (March 3, 2009)
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., will discuss food safety in another in a series of "town hall" meetings on issues related to the Sept. 11 attacks on Monday, Nov. 19 in Ithaca. The forum will be held from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. at Cornell University's Barnes Hall.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings and Provost Biddy Martin today (Dec. 20) issued the following statement on the status of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning: "Based on the extensive conversations that have taken place with the College of Architecture, Art and Planning and its several constituencies over the last several months, we do not recommend the dissolution of the College.
Editor's picks for the week of Feb. 27 include a dance concert, a Japanese drum team, a forum on the water crisis in the Mediterranean and classical music performances. (Feb. 26, 2009)