This week on campus, Cornell Chorus hosts a women's choral conference with a keynote by Maggie Wheeler; "The Godfather," "It" and other classics at Cornell Cinema; and "The Vagina Monologues."
Dr. Barbara Hempstead will become dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences on Jan. 14. She succeeds Dr. Carl Nathan, who is completing his planned two-year term.
The university will further bolster its financial aid program for undergraduates by eliminating parental contribution for family incomes below $60,000, and further reducing student loans. (Nov. 13, 2008)
The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. About half of the department's doctoral alumni will return to campus Nov. 1.
A new team has been named to lead the Cornell Migrant Program (CMP) and to suggest ways to restructure the program to better meet the changing and complex needs of New York's agricultural community, including migrant and other farm labor, their families and communities. The announcement was made today by the deans of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and College of Human Ecology (CHE), and the director of Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE). (May 14, 2004)
The seven-year-old Physics Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) program supports Cornell students considering a career in teaching high school physics. The program has grown to over 60 participants this year.
Ways to address major social problems among youth were discussed at the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research's fifth Youth Development Research Update, June 2-3 in Ithaca.
C. Riley Snorton, assistant professor of Africana studies and of feminist, gender and sexuality studies in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, documents little-known gender journeys of African-Americans.