As a mother watched her young daughter leap around mounds of pumpkins at the Red Hook Harvest Festival Oct. 21 in Brooklyn, N.Y., she whispered in awe to her husband, "This is the largest pumpkin field I have seen in my entire…
The creation of a degree program called Healthier Life, designed to connect health care professionals and technologists, was announced Dec. 4 at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City Thursday, June 20. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St. (June 12, 2002)
Evoking the charm of swaying corn growing on an upstate farm and recalling 150 years of agricultural science, students in Food Science 1101 developed an ice cream worthy of Cornell’s sesquicentennial: Sweet Cornell.
Close to 1,000 organ transplantation patients, donors and families reunited with their medical teams in New York City May 4 for a Circle for Life celebration. (May 17, 2007)
The Prefreshman Summer Program helps first-generation students, students of color and students from low-income backgrounds make a successful transition from high school to Cornell.
The recently designed intercampus Web site includes a matchmaking service to forge research connections between Cornell's Ithaca and New York City campuses. (May 23, 2008)
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- One issue that provokes opposing views in this year's election battles is how to improve U.S. public schools. On Feb. 12, Harold O. Levy, former New York City schools chancellor, will tackle the controversial subjects of testing, performance and school attendance in "Helping our Children Learn: Critical Issues in Public Education", a talk in New York City. Levy, who holds undergraduate and law degrees from Cornell University (B.S '74, J.D. '79), headlines the first of four Cornell lectures in the city. Sponsored by the university's School of Industrial and Labor Relations' Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS), the Workplace Colloquium series takes place at the Cornell Club, 6 E. 44th Street (between Madison and Fifth avenues). (February 10, 2004)
The world will soon "C" the humanities at Cornell as never before.
In a first-of-its kind project, Cornell art Professor Buzz Spector will create one of the largest and most inclusive artworks in the university's history: an…
Joan and Sanford Weill and the Weill Family Foundation have accelerated a previous pledge to the university with a $170 million cash payment. Their donation will aid the $4 billion campaign. (April 8, 2009)