Cornell University students taking part in an international competition to build a state-of-the-art solar-powered house will hold an Earth Day Celebration in the Sage Hall atrium, April 22, from 6 to 8 p.m. The celebration is free and open to the public. Booths and posters will provide a sneak preview of the Cornell entry in the fall 2005 competition, the National Solar Decathlon. During the Earth Day event, Ithaca Mayor Carolyn Peterson and New York State Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton (D-125th) will comment on environmental policies. (April 13, 2004)
Four clothing, textile and art exhibits are coinciding with the centennial celebration for Cornell University's College of Human Ecology this coming weekend, March 30-31. One exhibit, which focuses on fashions of the 20th century and their interactions with art, is paired with a show of contemporary works of art in which clothing and dress are the subject matter; both are in the university's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. The third exhibit, featuring children's clothing, is in the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection Gallery (on the third floor of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall). All three exhibits coincide with the centennial celebration this week but will continue until June 17.
As pump prices for gasoline set record highs in the United States and crude oil becomes more expensive than it has been almost at any time since the 1991 Gulf War, Cornell University is hosting an engineering conference April 15-17 on Energy Demand and Sustainable Development. The conference will feature talks on the applications and business potential of new technologies in energy and sustainable development by Cornell alumni who are leading energy industry figures and faculty members who are leading the research at the Cornell campus. They will discuss a range of issues involved in formulating national energy policy, including the role of advanced technologies, providing low-cost electricity and the use of ethanol as a fuel. The conference also includes a research poster session by students. (April 8, 2004)
Africana and English faculty member Carol Boyce Davies has received an award from the Association of Black Women Historians for her historical biography of radical intellectual Claudia Jones. (Oct. 8, 2008)
Veterinary professor Dan Fletcher has designed the first veterinary 'smart' dog mannequin to give veterinary students an opportunity to learn what to do in an emergency. (Oct. 26, 2010)
In an Oct. 3 concert, the Song and Dance Ensemble of West Africa used traditional instruments to accompany and songs and dances about life, work and happiness derived from Mali's folkloric music. (Oct. 7, 2008)
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Tretheway read from her work, including 'Native Guard,' at the Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Reading Feb. 25 in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium. (March 4, 2010)
Researchers at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the North American Bluebird Society (NABS) are asking bird-lovers to log on to online and put their birdhouses on the map for the first-ever Great North American Bluebird Count.
Donna StockeCornell engineering seniors Michael Stocke, left, and William Culley, who have been fans of miniature golf since childhood, at the preschoolers' putting green they built for the Sciencenter's space-themed miniature…
Native Americas, the hemispheric journal published by the Akwe:kon Press at Cornell University's American Indian Program, won seven national media awards.