Cornell President Martha E. Pollack stopped by the Student Assembly meeting in Willard Straight Hall April 20, her fourth day in office, making brief remarks before taking questions for about a half hour on a multitude of topics.
More than 200 alumni are expected to return to campus – along with a few humanoid robots – for Entrepreneurship at Cornell's Celebration conference, April 27-28.
The ILR Employment and Disability Institute’s New York State Partners in Policymaking program will receive $250,000 annually for the next five years. The money will fund a Web-based model of leadership training.
Michael Gerson, an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post who penned most of President George W. Bush's speeches from 2001 to 2006, talked about his years in the White House at the Cornell Club in New York City, Nov. 19. (Nov. 26, 2007)
A.D. White Professor Lowery Stokes Sims, curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, spoke on curating the Global Africa Project March 29 at the Johnson Museum. (April 1, 2011)
An unprecedented partnership between the ILR School's Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution and the American Arbitration Association begins this year with a series of seminars. (April 14, 2009)
More than 50 high school students from across the state visited Cornell March 31-April 1 for the New York Youth Institute, the state-level World Food Prize youth program engaging students with issues related to agriculture and food security.
Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi, the Sanford I. Weill Chairman of the Weill Department of Medicine, has been appointed interim dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and interim provost for medical affairs of Cornell University, starting June 1. The formation of a search committee also has been formed.
The Merlin Bird Photo ID mobile app has been launched and, thanks to machine-learning technology, can identify hundreds of North American species it “sees” in photos.