To bring together related functional areas and realize greater efficiencies throughout Cornell, President Elizabeth Garrett is restructuring her leadership team, reorganizing some of the university's top administrative responsibilities.
Cornell will host the Conference in Laboratory Phonology, an international meeting for researchers taking experimental approaches to the study of human speech sounds, July 13-17. It will addresses sounds in human language as part of a linguistic, cognitive and communicative system.
Events include two Carl Becker Lecture Series talks by historian and author Michael Kazin; a lecture by wildlife conservationist and A.D. White Professor-At-Large Laurie Marker; Cornell Cinema’s screening of “Dragnet Girl,” accompanied live by the electronic group Coupler; and Swiss artist Elisabeth Masé in a conversation at the Johnson Museum.
Cornell was one of five organizations awarded an Equal Employment Opportunity Award for demonstrated exemplary efforts in achieving equal employment opportunity in the workplace. (May 21, 2007)
In response to a number of reports of sexual assault and bias on campus in recent months, students and administrators have been working together on new initiatives aimed at educating the campus and assisting victims. (Nov. 8, 2012)
A Cornell-led consortium has authored a white paper, 'Eliminating Racial Disparities in College Completion and Achievement,' for the Teagle Foundation.
Dorothy Cotton worked side by side with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to empower African-Americans to exercise their civil rights. She died June 10 at her residence in Kendal at Ithaca.
Ongoing monitoring for genetic changes in chronic lymphocytic leukemia during targeted treatment may allow clinicians to adjust patients’ treatments as the cancer evolves.
Roger Moseley's new book, "Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo," considers the playing of keyboards as a primary mode of musical behavior.
Cornell is among more than 80 schools to join the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, a new initiative to improve the college application and admissions process for all students.