Events this week include physicist Kathy Selby at the Light in Winter Festival, old-time duo The Pearly Snaps, William Finn's musical 'Elegies' and fiction writer Edwidge Danticat.
On Feb. 22, the College of Arts and Sciences brought together faculty working on philosophy of mind in a Big Ideas panel, part of the New Century for the Humanities celebration.
Students and young alumni came out in force for the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference, the Office of Alumni Affairs' flagship volunteer event, Jan. 28-30 in Washington, D.C. (Jan. 31, 2011)
The Dean's Entrepreneurship Lab provides resources and education opportunities to students and faculty who have ideas with commercial potential that they want to translate from the lab to the patient.
The second annual "Cornell on the Commons" community event is scheduled for Saturday, Aug 28, from 1 to 4 p.m. on the downtown Ithaca Commons. Cornell on the Commons, which also is a featured part of the university's Welcome Weekend at the beginning of the fall semester, has the dual purpose of familiarizing Cornell students with downtown Ithaca, while also showcasing many of the Cornell programs and services open to the Ithaca community. (July 19, 2004)
Substantial facilities improvements are under way for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, including a reorganization of the Fine Arts Library in anticipation of a planned move to Rand Hall. (Sept. 14, 2010)
The Class of 1937 looks to set an attendance record for its 75th reunion and Michelle Rhee '92 will deliver the annual Olin Lecture June 8 in Bailey Hall, as part of Reunion 2012 weekend, June 7-10.
Associate vice president for inclusion and workforce diversity is named a 2012 'woman worth watching' by Profiles in Diversity Journal, one of three women in institutions of higher education to do so. (Sept. 27, 2012)
In an example of cross-campus collaboration, a group led by Minglin Ma has developed a unique implant for controlling type 1 diabetes, which affects more than 1 million Americans.