They didn't sing the old Cornell football song "See them plunging down to the goal," but the school's Big Red team became champions of world robot "soccer" today (Aug. 4, 1999) when they beat a highly regarded German team 15-0 in the finals in Stockholm, Sweden.
With singing, dancing and labor politics too controversial for the 1930s, "The Cradle Will Rock" will open the 2005-06 theater season at Cornell's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
People lie, research has shown, in one-fourth of their daily, social interactions. But according to Cornell University communications researchers, people are most likely to lie on the telephone. In fact, the researchers say, phone fibbing is even more likely than when people use e-mail, instant messaging or even speak face-to-face. (February 18, 2004)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Thomas C. Devlin, the executive director of career services at Cornell University since 1978, has received the 1995 Warren E. Kauffman Award for outstanding service to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). The Bethlehem, Pa.-based membership organization (formerly known as the College Placement Council) represents professionals involved in the career planning and employment of college students and graduates.
During halftime of Cornell's home football game with Princeton University on Saturday, Sept. 20, at Schoellkopf Field, there will be a ceremony honoring a Cornell and American football coaching legend - Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner.
Douglas Wilder, the former governor of Virginia and a national political figure, will give a lecture at Cornell at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in Uris Hall Auditorium. The lecture, titled "Social and Political Challenges in the '90s," is free and open to the public.
Donald Kagan, a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Hillhouse Professor of History and Classics at Yale University, will give a University Lecture at Cornell University on Monday, April 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. The title of the free and open lecture is "On the Conclusion of Wars as the Foundation for Peace."
A historic arts colony here that has been home to some of the most celebrated American artists will get a helping hand from Cornell preservation students, scholars and practitioners this Thursday through Sunday, April 3-6.