Thousands of alumni will visit campus April 24-27 for Charter Day Weekend: A Festival of Ideas and Imagination, featuring more than 40 events celebrating Cornell's global contributions.
A Cornell researcher has found that a cancer cell's sugar coating causes physical changes in the cell membrane that make the cell better able to thrive.
Events this week include a community reading by Cornell and local writers, talks on computing and anthropology, jazz at Bailey Hall and video art at the Johnson Museum. (Oct. 29, 2009)
Corning Inc. CEO Wendell Weeks said his company has survived and thrived for 163 years by embracing research-based innovation in a campus talk Nov. 17.
Human mothers’ experience of pain and the expression of distress occur today because human ancestors who cried for help survived in greater numbers, according a hypothesis by Cornell psychologist Barbara L. Finlay.
Events on campus this week include a discussion of women and equality; Asia Night; professor Harry Greene on field biology; "Wonder Women" author Debora Spar and baroque orchestra Tempesta di Mare.
Events this week include 'The Red Shoes' at Cornell Cinema, an event for Bob Dylan's 70th birthday, a conference on art and technology and the Mayfest chamber music festival.
The first-ever Yiddish Theater Festival in the Finger Lakes stars New York City’s New Yiddish Rep and includes four events over three nights, Sept. 8-10.
Key pioneers of hip-hop, including DJ Afrika Bambaataa, will return to campus April 14-15 for an academic and musical symposium on the origins and lasting impact of the cultural movement. (April 7, 2011)