The annual open enrollment period for endowed health, dental and select benefits plans will be Nov. 1-30. News from NYS on contract college employees plans are pending. Benefair will be Nov. 10. (Oct. 6, 2010)
The university will open a Cornell Store on the Ithaca Commons later this spring. The announcement was part of a Cornell-sponsored regional conference on town-gown economic development.
Workers poured 200 yards of concrete continuously for more than 12 hours on Sept. 28 to form the dome that is a signature architectural feature of Paul Milstein Hall. (Oct. 4, 2010)
A Cornell engineering group has devised a method for allowing strain and tactile sensing in a soft prosthetic hand, through the use of stretchable optical waveguides.
Cornell poets are tweeting their work to promote and connect with readers for Poetry in Your Pocket, an annual event taking place in New York City April 26. (April 24, 2012)
As strategists gear up for the 2016 campaign, communication researchers are recruiting political news junkies in a nationwide test of an interactive tool that draws attention to framing in political issues.
Events on campus this week include a lecture on the Rhodes Hall clock by Bill Nye '77, a Terrence Malick film retrospective, and a Humanities Lecture on travel and comparative political thought. (Aug. 25, 2011)
The Department of Comparative Literature is celebrating its 50th anniversary this semester with an event, “Comparative Lit at Fifty: Early Modern Studies,” from 3-7 p.m., April 13, in the German Studies Lounge, 177 Goldwin Smith Hall.
The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative will host its last speaker of the fall semester, Basile Zimmermann, assistant professor of Chinese studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 16.