A 10-day journey to cities in the Brazilian rainforest gave students a firsthand look at the complexities of urbanization in the Amazon, as part of the interdisciplinary seminar Forest Cartographies.
Ray Dalton, executive director of Cornell's Office of Minority Educational Affairs, was recently awarded the William H. Myers Multicultural Professional Service Award for his work in multicultural affairs at Cornell. (Jan. 24, 2008)
Cornell faculty are engaged in the creation of contemporary art as well as in its study and curation. Contemporary art mediums are limited only by the artist’s imagination.
Andrea Haenlin-Mott has been appointed Cornell's first Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator for facilities. The university has also launched an informational Web site on disabilities for faculty, staff and students.
Cornell University is joining with organizations that offer career and employment services to form the Cornell Recruitment Partnership. The partnership was created to offer a new, inclusive gateway to career opportunities at Cornell. The objective of the Cornell Recruitment Partnership (CRP), organizers say, is to promote career opportunities at Cornell through strategic, diverse and communication-focused partnerships with local, regional and national career-services organizations that help connect talented people with career opportunities. The CRP's efforts will expand on earlier employment initiatives spearheaded by Cornell's offices of Workforce Diversity, Equity and Life Quality and Community Relations and will increase access to career opportunities at Cornell. (March 18, 2004)
More than 100 local and Cornell community members attended the seventh annual Town-Gown Awards ceremony Dec. 2. This year the celebration featured the three new presidents of Cornell University, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College.
The challenges of growing market-grade malting barley, paired with the rising demands of the state's three-year old farm brewery law, dominated discussion at the Southern Tier Farm Brewery Summit.
A new one-credit course, The First American University, covers Cornell's history as a coeducational, nonsectarian institution and a multitude of factoids on Cornell lore.