Bringing together scholars from around the world April 20-21, the conference will explore how the rise of capitalism in China affects politics, markets, entrepreneurship, property rights and social structure. (April 18, 2007)
Barbara Bartholomew, Jake Benninger, Hollis Erb, Amanda Erdman, Francine Herman, Sabrina Stierwalt and Zellman Warhaft are winners of the 2007 Constance E. Cook and Alice H. Cook Recognition Awards. (April 18, 2007)
Attention to every detail was a behind-the-scenes theme at the Hotel Ezra Cornell, April 12-15. The more salient theme this year, however, was sustainability through innovation. (April 17, 2007)
In the keynote address for Hotel Ezra Cornell April 13, Leland Pillsbury '69 encouraged students and alumni to view school and work with an entrepreneurial state of mind. (April 17, 2007)
Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center will host an international symposium, 'Imaging Ethiopia: Monarchy and Modernity,' April 20-21 in the center's Multipurpose Room, 310 Triphammer Road. (April 17, 2007)
Cornell administrators say the 2007-08 New York state budget, which the Legislature passed April 1, is excellent for the state's higher education institutions and Cornell in particular. (April 17, 2007)
Muslims in the United States need to build a common culture that doesn't lead to broken psyches, said scholar Umar Faruq Abd-Allah, at an Islam Awareness Week lecture, April 13. (April 17, 2007)
Speaking in Goldwin Smith Hall, April 12, Stanford's Adrienne Mayor presented a lecture on chemical and biological warfare in cultures dating to the Sumerians and Hittites, circa 1700 B.C. (April 17, 2007)
Blasting the media as an 'engine of falsification,' feminist columnist Katha Pollitt spoke her mind April 11 in a lecture at Carl Becker House. (April 17, 2007)