"Things Fall Apart" is bringing people together. Nearly 5,000 students from 59 high schools in 17 New York counties and New York City will read Chinua Achebe's masterful novel "Things Fall Apart" as part of a statewide pilot program coordinated through Cornell Cooperative Extension and the 2005 New Student Reading Project at Cornell. In addition, 24,000 Cornell alumni from 31 class years also will join what has become an annual rite of passage for incoming freshman and transfer students at Cornell.
Internationally famed architect Rem Koolhaas spoke to an overflow crowd in Kennedy Hall's 600-seat David L. Call Alumni Auditorium on campus April 25. The 2000 winner of the Pritzker Prize -- often called the Nobel Prize of architecture -- talked about his views of the current state of architecture in general and also described, and showed images of, projects of his own. (April 26, 2005)
Thomas W. Bruce, vice president for university communications since 2004, has been named senior vice president for public affairs at Dartmouth College. He will begin his new position Nov. 18.
ILR School will present its highest honors for outstanding professional achievement and contributions to the school to Mark Brossman, Robert Molofsky and Ruben King-Shaw. (March 13, 2008)
James Siena '79 reflected on his Cornell years, life before the Internet and his development as an artist at an April 16 lecture at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. (April 20, 2010)
Vivian Schiller '83 is new NPR head; Wendy Libby '72, MBA '77, is named president of Stetson University; and Josh Greenfield '84 publishes a novel. (Dec. 4, 2008)
The Cornell Board of Trustees on May 24 unanimously elected two new at-large trustees, two new trustee fellows and re-elected two at-large members and four fellows. Board members also welcomed two alumni-elected trustees, one faculty-elected trustee, one student-elected trustee and two trustees appointed by New York Gov. George Pataki.
Events this week include the 2016 Cornell arts biennial, a concert kicking off a 'Technologies of Memory' series, a a reading by writer Joy Harjo, new and classic films, and jazz pianist Fred Hersch.
A Cornell medical school study finds that when doctors use electronic systems to write prescriptions, they make seven times fewer errors than when they scrawl by hand. (March 30, 2010)