In June about 180 new Cornell students arrived on campus for the Prefreshman Summer Program, which gives them the opportunity to prepare for the challenges of their first year of college.
Events on campus include International Education Week, the fourth annual Local Fair at Mann Library, a Barton Hall concert by Nas, and a book talk on human-animal relations through history. (Nov. 8, 2012)
On a new mission to probe Jupiter’s mysterious icy, oceanic moon Europa, three Cornell researchers have joined three scientific instrument teams May 26 that will be aboard the yet-named NASA expedition.
Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa makes his last official visit to Cornell in his role as a visiting scholar Oct. 26-28, when he'll meet with students on campus and speak at public events in Ithaca.
Vice President KyuJung Whang, chair of the Cornell United Way Campaign, makes a final request for pledges and donations as the campaign reaches the 98 percent mark.
Why would five Cornell professors decide to teach a class when there was no budget to pay them to do it? For the directors of Cornell’s Behavioral Economics and Decision Research Center, the reason is the subject of the course: Better Decisions for Life, Love and Money.
Dr. Julie Butler, D.V.M. ’83, cared for Harlem and its pets for 30 years. Her death due to COVID-19 inspired the College of Veterinary Medicine to establish a scholarship in her name.
On Sept. 17 in San Francisco, artist Maya Lin unveiled the first component of her serial art installation on species loss, which uses sounds and videos from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. (Sept. 17, 2009)
For the first time, the Empire State Fruit and Vegetable Expo and Direct Marketing Conference will offer 11 sessions in Spanish to better train many of the Spanish-speaking farmworkers. (Dec. 15, 2011)
The second International Conference on Global Food Security held Oct. 11-14 at Cornell confronts elements of human welfare and environmental concerns connected with feeding billions more people.