The traditional sounds of chimes, orchestra and chorus will accompany the pageantry surrounding inauguration ceremonies for David Skorton - as well as jazz, steel drums, Latin, klezmer and electronic music.
The Cornell community welcomed new students with a communal outdoor meal Aug. 24 on the Arts Quad.
Picnic on the Quad, a new Welcome Weekend event this year, brought hundreds of students, faculty and staff together for lunch on…
There are many fundamental differences between the common law in the United States and continental Europe's civil law. But, "the human tendency to treat foreign as different and then make the unwarranted logical jump and also…
Farah Hussain '05, a local youth and sustainability activist with a worldwide vision, believes that young people have what it takes to solve the world's most-pressing problems.
"Some people only see youths' negative attributes,"…
Joel Perlman, BFA '65, was 14 when he decided to become a sculptor. He was a scrappy scholarship kid at Fieldston School in the Bronx then, hard hit by the recent, sudden death of his father from a heart attack at 47.
To help…
Cornell University's Department of Food Science has selected Crowley Foods of Albany as the processor of the highest quality milk in New York for 2006.
The selection is part of the New York State Milk Quality Improvement Program,…
The setting is the same as it has been for more than 1,200 Sundays -- a modest stage, some microphones, coffee brewing nearby and a small, engaged audience.
WVBR's "Bound For Glory," a beacon for folk-music lovers, is celebrating…
Robert Barker/University PhotographyCornell President David Skorton helps 4-H members fill "hero packs" with supplies as part of Operation Military Kids, Aug. 24 at the New York State Fair. Shown with the president, from left,…
The editors of R&D Magazine and MicroNano Newsletter have selected DNA buckyballs created by Dan Luo, Cornell assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering, as one of the 25 "most innovative products of 2006…
Éva Tardos, Cornell professor of computer science, has received the George B. Dantzig Prize, awarded jointly by the Mathematical Programming Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
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