Historian Gordon F. Sander '72's book, "The Hundred Day Winter War," is a comprehensive account of Finland's heroic stand in 1939-1940 against the Red Army.
CU Winds students traveled to Haiti and the Dominican Republic Jan. 10-17 on a winter service-learning concert tour, promoting cultural exchange in collaboration with local musicians and agencies.
Internationally renowned social scientists from Cornell and other institutions are getting together with artists on April 18 for a "salon" convened by the Institute for the Social Sciences.
'To reflect on arXiv is to reflect on a research world transformed by a two-decade revolution in information technology,' says Paul Ginsparg in a Nature commentary piece published Aug. 11. (Aug. 12, 2011)
Steven Muller, who as a Cornell vice president helped defuse the Willard Straight Hall takeover of 1969 and went on to lead Johns Hopkins University, has died.
Linguistics scholar Gillian Ramchand will present 'Language and the Form-Meaning Connection,' April 14 at 4:30 p.m. at Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. (April 4, 2011)
The president of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, visits campus Nov. 20-22. He will deliver a public lecture, “Iceland’s Clean Energy Economy – A Roadmap to Sustainability and Good Business,” Nov. 21 at 4 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium.
In July, 14 students visited Cornell for an intensive one-week course, the Warrior-Scholar Project, designed to facilitate their transition from combat life to institutions of higher education.