From its founding Cornell has been a secular institution, but when the university offered the School for Missionaries from 1930 to 1964 – a four-week course for missionaries on furlough – it became instantly popular.
Brian Wansink, Cornell's John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing, will take a leave of absence to serve as the executive director of the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion until January 2009. (Nov. 20, 2007)
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer visited campus June 18 with some welcome news: Cornell's world-renowned synchrotron X-ray facility will continue being funded.
Greg Morrisett, the new dean of Computing and Information Science, looks forward to new ways of teaching and paths to success for faculty and students.
The CALS Green energy-saving contest saved an estimated 2 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions. Of the six buildings competing, Wing Hall in Geneva, N.Y., saved the most energy.
Events this week include: Cornell Cinema movies; Spring Garden sale, bike race, games designs, higher education in Africa, Mayfest music, Cornell Prison Education Program and wildflowers.
Cornell economist Alfred E. Kahn, former chair of the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Council on Wage and Price Stability, and adviser to President Jimmy Carter on inflation, died Dec. 27 at his home in Ithaca.
It's a student takeover of the most welcome variety -- the annual fete called Hotel Ezra Cornell on the Cornell campus. On Friday, April 20, Statler Hotel managers will hand over the ceremonial key to the on-campus facility to directors, and for the rest of the weekend all hotel services and events will be handled by more than 400 student.