Author Alison Lurie's contribution to arts and letters will be celebrated with a Cornell Library exhibit that opens Oct. 7 with a video screening followed by a reception.
The boredom and isolation of life in a nursing home, the shortage of mentors for inquisitive children, the need for more greenery in the world -- all can be addressed through intergenerational cooperation, according to a Cornell University horticulturist with a plan to send senior citizens back to school.
Cornell will host Horses 2002, a two-day conference April 6 and 7, featuring demonstrations, clinics, educational seminars related to equine issues, and speakers, including horse-and-rider relationship expert GaWaNi Pony Boy.
Five Cornell students and staff members who were in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, working at the Weill Cornell-affiliated GHESKIO clinic during the Jan. 12 earthquake, were safe as of Jan. 14.
Learn from the pros about how to turn business ideas into plans that attract investors, or, if you're an aspiring venture capitalist, how to spot good investments, even in a recession. A stellar lineup of successful entrepreneurs and principal investors will share their insights Feb. 8 in Sage Hall on Cornell University's campus. The 2nd Annual Cornell Entrepreneurship and Principal Investing Symposium (EPIS) is organized by students at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management who are aspiring entrepreneurs and principal investors. (January 29, 2002)
Hand Buzz Spector a book, and there's a good chance he'll destroy it. Read a profile of the Cornell art professor and art department chair, who has meticulously torn the pages of hundreds of books to create cascading images within their bindings.
Cornell University and the Cornell Association of Student Employees/UAW (CASE/UAW) reached agreements yesterday (July 11) that will allow a union representation election for the university's approximately 2,000 teaching assistants, research assistants, graduate research assistants and graduate assistants. The agreements define the bargaining unit, set dates for the National Labor Relations Board-administered election, and recognize that certain academic issues lie outside the scope of bargaining. The union and the university also agreed to procedures to be followed by both parties in the event that there are subsequent NLRB rulings that revise the present interpretation of the status of graduate student assistants as employees. Under the terms of the Agreement, the proposed bargaining unit will include graduate research assistants, research assistants, teaching assistants and graduate assistants who are graduate degree program students under the jurisdiction of the Graduate School and who receive a stipend and at least a 25 per cent tuition remission from the university. Other individuals and employees are expressly excluded from the proposed bargaining unit. (July 12, 2002)
The computer-modeling accomplishment - which is expected to aid the future design of tiny insect-like flying machines and should dispel the longstanding myth that "bumblebees cannot fly.