Events on campus in the next two weeks include a reading by Teju Cole; the 2014 Atkinson Symposium on earth art; a lecture on sustainable housing; and "Total Recall" director Paul Verhoeven.
Ground has been broken on the site of Paul Milstein Hall, a facilities expansion for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning that is scheduled to open in August 2011. (Aug. 4, 2009)
Los Angeles artist Jessica Rath worked with Professor Susan Brown to use Cornell apple trees as a basis for a photography exhibit in Pasadena next year. (June 16, 2011)
Cornell University's Ives Hall will resemble a World Bank convention center this week as more than 100 international experts arrive to discuss issues that range from the impact of the AIDS epidemic on poor countries to child labor and exchange rate crises in developing nations. The colloquium, titled "75 Years of Research Development," will be held Friday, May 7, through Sunday, May 9, and features four keynote speakers of international repute: Abhijit Banerjee of MIT; Jean Ensminger of the California Institute of Technology; Steve Morris of Yale University; and Dani Rodrik of Harvard University. Many young scholars from developing nations also will present their papers alongside more celebrated colleagues in the field. The Program on Comparative Economic Development (PCED) at Cornell is hosting the event, and all talks are free and open to the public (with the exception of the dinner/lecture on Saturday evening, which is restricted to registered participants and special invitees). (May 3, 2004)
The Class of 2012 Council has gotten the entire Ivy League to join forces to fundraise for philanthropy for first time. So far, the Ivy League has raised $10,000 for Save the Children. (June 10, 2011)
Michael Huyghue '84 and Seth Payne '97 threw the team a party in downtown Jacksonville to celebrate the team's visit to their city and to wish them luck in the tournament. (March 19, 2010)
A new Cornell study finds that teens who receive feedback from virtual pets on their iPhones are twice as likely to eat breakfast. The study is published in the Journal of Children and Media.