Cornell President Hunter Rawlings has named the university's 1998 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows, honoring effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings has named the university's 1998 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows, honoring effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students.
With more than one-quarter million guns going to school every day and media images bombarding our children with violence-related images, it's little wonder that thousands of American youths are arrested each year for violent crimes.
Professor-at-Large Toni Morrison, Cornell MFA '55, the 1993 Nobel laureate in literature and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, 'Beloved,' will present a free and open lecture on literature and public life.
Add another jewel to the literary crown of acclaimed poet A.R. Ammons, Cornell University's Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus of Poetry, who has been selected to receive the 1998 Tanning Prize.
This year Cornell again joins more than 3,000 colleges and universities nationwide participating in National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, Oct. 18-24.
Are paid advertisements really free speech? "Advocacy Advertising and the First Amendment" will be the topic of a lecture at Cornell University by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, Monday, Oct. 26, at 5 p.m.
A tiny, invisible crack in the aluminum-alloy skin of an airplane can sometimes grow into a major crack that causes the skin to tear open in flight. A new research program at Cornell aims to understand how this happens, starting at the level of atoms and working up.
Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees and University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 22, for Cornell's annual Trustee/Council Weekend. The annual meeting of the 440-member council and a quarterly meeting of the trustees are scheduled on campus every fall.