On the seventh annual trip to Brighton Beach, 33 Cornellians spent the day immersing themselves in Russian culture, including a performance by the acclaimed Russian National Folk Dance Ensemble. (Nov. 19, 2009)
Nov. 6 marked the sixth annual Cornell trip to the United Nations; 79 Cornellians spent the day touring the organization and meeting U.N. experts, who spoke on topics the students requested. (Nov. 11, 2009)
ACT for Youth views young people as resources to be nurtured, rather than problems to be fixed.
An innovative Cornell project, ACT (Assets Coming Together) builds community partnerships to promote adolescent health and well-being…
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 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)
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)
To train educators and youth coaches about aquatic life, more than two dozen New York City educators are goin' fishin' on Thursday, Sept. 23, in Central Park.
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)
Professors Glenn Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick's book details Cornell's emergence as a modern research university and the ongoing balance between its ideals of freedom and responsibility.