Cornell events this week include an eco-cruise on Cayuga Lake, 'A Trip to the Moon' and other films in Willard Straight Hall, a lecture on entrepreneurship, and jazz musician Tia Fuller in Bailey Hall. (Sept. 6, 2012)
Cornell's 108th annual Dragon Day on March 13 featured the usual parade through campus and ritual burning, but this year the dragon survived thanks to state environmental regulations. (March 13, 2009)
Assistant professor of computer science Ashutosh Saxena leads Cornell's Personal Robotics Lab, which develops software for complex, high-level robotics that could one day aid humans with daily tasks. (Sept. 21, 2010)
Corinna Lewis, outreach coordinator of Cornell Abroad, received the 2012 Marilyn Emmons Williams Award in March for promoting undergraduate research at Cornell.
Events on campus this week include a symposium on the latest cancer research, a gas drilling roundtable, a documentary on artist Anselm Kiefer, and gallery and garden talks at the Johnson Museum.
Filled with such items as course catalogs and electronic devices, the College of Human Ecology's 10-feet-long time capsule will be opened during Cornell's bicentennial. (Nov. 19, 2012)
A memorial symposium to celebrate Nobel laureate Ken Wilson’s scientific achievements will be held Saturday, Nov. 16, in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, beginning at 9 a.m.
Tickets go on sale Aug. 26 for the Employee Celebration for staff, faculty, retirees and their families to be held Oct. 1. The event includes football against Wagner College and a community dinner. (Aug. 25, 2011)
Events at Cornell this week include Martin Luther King, Jr. commemorations, 'The Godfather' at Cornell Cinema, and new exhibitions at the Johnson Museum of Art and Museum of the Earth.
Literary scholar and Professor Emeritus M.H. 'Mike' Abrams reflected on his long career and a life in letters during a two-day public celebration in honor of his 100th birthday.