Real lives. Real stories. Real change. The Cornell United Way campaign is not simply a feel-good exercise, although it does feel good to know you are helping to make a difference.
Author and poet Peter Balakian will speak on 'The Armenian Genocide and Inter-Generational Transmission of Trauma,' Oct. 27, at 4:30 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium.
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.
The student-run Cornell Program Board is presenting "An Evening with Bill Maher" at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 30, in Bailey Hall on the Cornell University campus. Tickets for Bill Maher's Bailey Hall show are $5 for students; $7 for the general public; and are on sale at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office.
Will there be librarians in the 21st century? Or for that matter will there be books 100 years from now? Alain Seznec, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell and professor of Romance studies, will give his fearless prediction for the future of the library in the information age during a presentation Wednesday, April 10.
Is your asparagus ailing? Can your melons be suffering a malady? Find out what's hurting your corn and cucurbits at Vegetable MD Online, vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu, a free service of the Cornell plant pathology department.
Tickets for the Newport Jazz Festival at Ithaca's State Theater, $17. Admission to the Valentine's Day Dance on the Cornell University campus, $5. Seeing the Martian landscape in stereo, priceless. The "3-D" glasses are free, while the supply lasts. Cornell Provost Biddy Martin has purchased 1,000 red-blue filtered, stereo glasses from American Paper Optics, Bartlett, Tenn., for distribution to Cornell students to view online images of Mars. The glasses are available at the information desk at Cornell's student union, Willard Straight Hall, says Dave Cameron, the provost's special projects assistant who organized the distribution. (February 10, 2004)
Has a 1991 Supreme Court ruling led to more prejudiced verdicts in capital cases and more defendants on death row? Statements about a victim's virtues have become a common feature of capital trials in the United States since Payne vs. Tennessee, when the nation's highest court ruled that victim impact statements (VIS) in death penalty cases were admissible in court. Scholars have argued about the effects of such statements on jurors' verdicts. Now, that controversial subject will be discussed at length at a day-long symposium at Cornell University Law School March 2. Also addressed will be the supposition that executions bring relief to the families of victims. (February 27, 2002)
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.
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.