One Cornell Law School student helped a mentally impaired local man recover funds that had been mismanaged by a financial adviser. This is just one examples of how 120 Cornell law students each year donate between five and 25 hours a week as part of their clinical course work.
Maury Tigner, who two decades ago helped design and build the half-mile-circumference accelerator at Cornell, has been named the next director of the operator of the huge device, the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, one of the world's leading centers for elementary particle research.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Clifton R. Wharton Jr., a former deputy secretary of state, chancellor of the State University of New York system and chairman of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and the College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), will give the Messenger Lecture at Cornell University on Thursday, April 18, at 4:30 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall. The title of the free and open lecture is "Presidential Politics and Foreign Policy: Diminishing America's Global Stature."
Science education in the United States is at a critical point, according to a national group of physicists and educators who attended a June 19 workshop on improving science education in public schools. With fewer secondary…
A Cornell archaeological project in Greece has won a double dose of financial support from the citizens of a small Greek village and a major American archaeological foundation.
Incoming students are typically advised to make the most of their time at Cornell. Fifth-year student David Evan Todd has taken that dictum further than most.
Eleanor Lanahan spoke about her grandparents, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, at the opening of the exhibition 'Zelda by Herself: The Art of Zelda Fitzgerald,' March 5. (March 7, 2007)
Colin Rowe, one of architecture's most influential scholars and one of its leading commentators, will be honored with a Festschrift April 26-28 at Cornell University. (March 20, 1996)
With cherry blossoms about to bloom, more than half a million tourists descend on the nation's capital as they do every spring, capturing the beauty and serenity of the 3,500 cherry trees along the Tidal Basin and Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. Peak bloom is expected April 4-9, with the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival March 31-April 4.
The Cornell Faculty Institute for Diversity met June 1-4 to discuss ways to diversify Cornell's curriculum to address such issues as class, disability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, race, religion and sexual orientation. (June 10, 2008)