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.
When Ithaca High School's 1997 football season opens Sept. 6, the team will be playing on East Hill instead of on the flats. Home games for the Little Red of Ithaca High this fall will be at Cornell's Schoellkopf Field, where the Big Red play. While IHS Coach Frank Fazio's team is ready for the season, the high-school field is not.
Food is vital for human life, promotes pleasure and prevents disease. Though biological scientists have studied food and nutrition in depth, few sociologists have focused on them as social problems.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., environmental activist, author, chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, will give the Kaplan Family Distinguished Lecture.
Michael Brown, co-founder and president of City Year, will visit Cornell Feb. 11, and interact with student groups. Brown is coming to the campus to speak at the Cornell Tradition's fifth annual convocation.
Israeli elder statesman and former prime minister Shimon Peres stressed the role of science, technology and innovation in a global economy as a key to peace in the Middle East in a public lecture in Bailey Hall on Nov. 28. …
The Cornell Biodiversity Laboratory, an education/research field station at Punta Cana on the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic, has been expanded and renamed the Punta Cana Association on Sustainability and Biodiversity. The newly formed consortium of academic and nonprofit organizations will accommodate the growing number of such organizations interested in using the field laboratory and the expanding environmental resources and facilities at Punta Cana. (February 25, 2003)
The campaign milestone was announced by President David Skorton at the event, which was a celebration of the university's 'unparalleled capabilities' to solve some of the planet's most pressing problems through research, teaching and outreach.