Entrepreneurship@Cornell's 2010 Celebration event, April 15-16, features symposiums, networking events, an expo and events honoring the 2010 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year.
Highlights of the weekend include the Convocation address by poet Maya Angelou on May 24 and President David Skorton's Commencement address, May 25. (May 19, 2008)
The 30th Cornell Fashion Collective runway show incorporates use of futuristic materials that detect heat and glow in the dark, April 12 in Barton Hall.
The history of labor in the U.S. South begins in its cotton fields and mills, with workers laboring under harsh conditions at exploitatively low wages. "What other job? This is the only job," said Sally Field in the title role of the film "Norma Rae," based on a true story about Crystal Lee Sutton, a home-grown union organizer at a J.P. Stevens plant in a small southern mill town in the 1970s. Today improved working conditions through the growth of such textile workers' unions as UNITE, countered by weakened labor laws, the shift in manufacturing jobs overseas and the growth in the service sector are among the forces shaping labor in the southern United States. The southern U.S. labor picture, then and now, and related topics will be addressed at Cornell University's first Southern Labor Conference this Wednesday, April 16, in PepsiCo Auditorium in 305 Ives Hall on Cornell's campus. The event, which is being run by the Southern Organization, a Cornell student group interested in culture, social and political issues in the U.S. South, starts at 4:30 p.m. (April 14, 2003)
Cornell is ranked No. 15 in the new Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings 2008, up from being 20th last year. The list ranks 500 universities worldwide each year. (Oct. 9, 2008)
Last month Cornell unveiled its first facility to earn the U.S. Green Building Council's coveted LEED Platinum Rating. And the best part: It's entirely edible. (Jan. 5, 2007)
Visitors to the Carl A. Kroch Library's Hirshland Gallery will get to view 'Vanished Worlds, Enduring People,' a premier exhibit featuring materials from the recently acquired Cornell University Library Native American Collection.
Cornell Students Against Sweatshops will be presented with the American Labor Museum's social justice award for its role in promoting college apparel manufacturers who pay a living wage. (Nov. 15, 2010)