Events on campus this week include a new human sexuality exhibition, a talk on marine mammals, Oscar-nominated short films and a women’s leadership summit featuring alumnae guests.
Beta Mannix, director of the Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) at Cornell University, hopes the institute will bring social scientists together on campus and attract more top-flight people to the university
Cornell faculty and students discussed the transformative potential of educational and research experiences abroad and global-oriented learning goals during a daylong symposium on campus.
Jason Koski/University PhotographyLeaders of the ACCEL program within the Provost's Office will be, from left, Provost Biddy Martin; Shelley Correll, associate professor of sociology; Marjolein van der Meulen, associate professor…
The Cornell Political Forum is sponsoring 'Governing Divided Communities,' Thursday, Oct. 4, a discussion featuring James Perkins Jr., mayor of Selma, Ala., and Alan Cohen, mayor of Ithaca.
A campus organization at Cornell University that promotes and celebrates the multi-racial experience at the university and in the Ithaca community will be the recipient of the 2002 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony. The group BLEND (Bi-/Multiracial Lineages, Ethnicities, and Nationalities Discussion) and its founder and president, Cornell senior Tamika Lewis, will be presented with the eighth-annual Perkins Prize, including an award of $5,000, by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings during a ceremony Tuesday, April 9, at 4:15 p.m. in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall on campus. (April 3, 2002)
On Nov. 20 Alice Green accepted Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service's 2010 Jack Lewis Award for Exemplary Service to Community Members in Crisis on behalf of Cornell's Student Crisis Management Team.
Helene Dillard, Cornell professor of plant pathology at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, has been appointed to a second ferm as director of Cornell Cooperative Extension. (Oct. 4, 2007)
Showcasing 36 student organizations of Asian heritage, Asia Night 2007 featured Thai and Indian cuisine and live entertainment, April 28, in Barton Hall. (April 30, 2007)
David C. Knapp, a former Cornell provost and dean who guided the College of Human Ecology through an extensive reorganization, died of complications from diabetes April 13 in Massachusetts. He was 82. (April 16, 2010)