From its founding Cornell has been a secular institution, but when the university offered the School for Missionaries from 1930 to 1964 – a four-week course for missionaries on furlough – it became instantly popular.
Professors Sheila Hemami, Karl Niklas and David Lipsky have been named Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows for outstanding teaching and mentoring of Cornell undergraduates.
The art museum has been awarded a $500,000 Kresge Foundation challenge grant to support its new underground extension. The museum must raise an additional $1.5 million by July 1, 2009, to receive the challenge grant. (Feb. 4, 2008)
Events on campus include the sixth annual town-gown awards, the Cornell Concerto Competition, classical and jazz performances, and "Casablanca" in Willard Straight Hall.
A $1.4 million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant will fund a Cornell pilot program of seminars in architecture, urbanism and the humanities. Six semesters of seminars will begin in spring 2014.
Six undergraduates spent spring break in Harlem building a sensory garden for children through Alternative Breaks, which promotes service learning through direct engagement with various communities.
Events on campus this week include a Cornell Chamber Orchestra family concert, 'On the Verge' at the Schwartz Center, International Education Week and the Local Food and Fiber Fair at Mann Library.
This year's School of Criticism and Theory, June 19-July 28, is addressing trends in literature, political theory, history, philosophy, art and anthropology with some of the world's leading scholars. (July 6, 2011)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and Cornell professor will serve as AMC's public face and primary representative for its membership, beginning July 1. (June 24, 2008)
Events on campus this week include a reading by Chinese-American writer Marilyn Chin, a debate with cake for the ILR School's 70th anniversary, IvyQ, and an talk on earthquake forecasting.