Cornell's Law School will present "Arbiters or Arbitrary? Redefining the Role of the Jury" on March 7 and 8. All sessions are open to the public and will take place in MacDonald Moot Court Room of Myron Taylor Hall.
Diferencias, a composition written by Roberto Sierra, Cornell associate professor of music, will make its world premiere March 8 in a performance by the Cornell University Wind Ensemble under the direction of Mark Scatterday. The free program will begin at 8:15 p.m. in Bailey Hall.
A coalition of presidents from nine independent and public colleges and universities released the following statement in Albany today (Feb. 26) to stress the importance of higher education.
Do you want to give kids the gift of a green thumb? Learn how to teach children about gardening at a two-day educational symposium, "Education in Blossom: The School Garden - Community Partnership," July 31 to Aug. 1, at the State University of New York College at Cortland, hosted by the college and Cornell.
Robert Fitzpatrick, dean of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, who will be the keynote speaker at the Cornell symposium "Creating Minds: Artistic Intelligence Across the Disciplines" to be held Feb. 28 and March 1.
Could an ancient plant rooted in thousands of years of Chinese tradition provide an economic boost to New York forest owners? A new cooperative team of researchers at Cornell and the North American Ginseng Assoc. is going to find out.
Cornell's Graduate Program in Medieval Studies appoints no faculty of its own. Yet faculty from 13 departments within the College of Arts and Sciences choose, out of love, to devote their time and energy to the program and its extremely diverse and dedicated group of students.
Societal changes are inextricably linked to changes in women's roles and status. And throughout March, Cornell will host a series of programs that explore these linkages - particularly in terms of what they tell us about notions of "family values," that loaded expression that has been a rallying cry of political conservatives.
Leaders of the international trend toward "greener" corporations will speak in an eight-part seminar series at Cornell titled "Industrial Ecology: Connecting Business and the Environment." The seminar series began Feb. 14 with a presentation by Andrea Farrell, chair of the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable.