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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The final report by the Middle States reaccreditation team, issued in late June, was glowing in its praise for Cornell University as "a truly special place."
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)
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."
Getting at the truth about the language of lies and how and under what circumstances we weave our tangled webs is much of the stuff of Jeff Hancock's research.
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.