A team of Johnson School students is competing in the Idea Village Entrepreneur Challenge this week in New Orleans, working on short-term, high-impact service roles in the city's revitalization. (March 23, 2010)
Events on campus this week include a Cornell Chamber Orchestra family concert, 'On the Verge' at the Schwartz Center, International Education Week and the Local Food and Fiber Fair at Mann Library.
Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation's first Greek collegiate organization established by black students at Cornell in 1906, will prepare for its centennial with a pilgrimage to Cornell on Saturday, Nov. 19.
A new series of courses, to be co-taught by faculty and Johnson Museum educators and curators, will use the museum's collections and Cornell resources to engage students and new faculty in connecting research with practice.
At a talk in NYC Dec. 12, engineering professor Thomas O'Rourke urged better preparedness for natural disasters and surveyed the role of infrastructure in recent calamities. (Dec. 18, 2012)
The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca Thursday, May 23, through Saturday, May 25. The Executive Committee of the board will hold a brief open session at the start of its meeting at 9 a.m. Friday, May 24, in the Yale-Princeton Room.
Six undergraduates spent spring break in Harlem building a sensory garden for children through Alternative Breaks, which promotes service learning through direct engagement with various communities.
The partnership between the Cornell and Columbia libraries to share resources and expertise has been judged a success by faculty users. (Dec. 12, 2011)
Five staff members were recipients of the new Individual and Management Excellence Awards and the President's Award of Excellence at an inaugural luncheon, May 9.
A new book by a world-renowned Cornell labor economist and an Oxford scholar shows how established employment practices - how people are hired and trained - are being challenged in seven industrialized countries, including the United States.