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.
Craig R. Barrett's will be given the Durland Memorial Lecture April 26 at Cornell. Barrett is president and CEO of Intel, one of the largest manufacturers of computer chips in the world.
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)
"Spring Field Ornithology," the eight-week course that teaches identification, life histories and behavior of spring migrants and resident birds of the Finger Lakes area, is open to the general public.
Robert Stewart Smith, professor and associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell, has been named acting dean of the school. The appointment was effective Jan. 16.
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.
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. …
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.