Cornell Hillel's Board of Trustees has announced that Barbara Friedman '59 will be the first recipient of the Tanner Prize for her significant contributions to the Jewish people and to Cornell University. The prize will be given to Friedman at an honorary luncheon April 21 at the Cornell Club in New York City.
A collaboration between Weill Cornell, Cayuga Medical Center and about a dozen Ithaca doctors gives third- or fourth-year medical students the opportunity to spend a six-week clerkship in Ithaca. (July 5, 2011)
On March 10, Floyd Cardoz, executive chef of New York City's Tabla restaurant, will launch the spring 2002 Guest Chefs Series with a sumptuous four-course dinner at the Statler Hotel on Cornell University's campus. The event, featuring Cardoz's unique Indian-inspired international cuisine, is open to the public. Tabla earned a three-star review in The New York Times in 1999, soon after it opened, and Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl wrote: "For me it was love at first bite." (March 6, 2002)
CALS Dean Kathryn Boor's lecture celebrating Cornell Cooperative Extension's centennial focused on the importance of science in everyday life and CCE's role in engaging people of all ages in its application.
The life of women's rights advocate Betty Friedan is being celebrated at Cornell on Monday, April 24, at 5 p.m. in the Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) Conference Center, Room 423.
Gener, senior editor of American Theatre, is the winner of the 2007-08 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, an honor administered annually by Cornell's Department of English. (Feb. 4, 2009)
'Garden of Lights,' a design by a team that included Cornell University undergraduate Sean Corriel, was one of three finalists in the competition for a memorial at the site of the former World Trade Center.
Harold Tanner, a 1952 graduate of Cornell and president of Tanner & Co. Inc. of New York, was unanimously elected chairman of the Cornell Board of Trustees at its first meeting of 1997 in New York City on Saturday, Jan. 25.
New York, NY (July 26, 2004) -- Throughout the history of obstetrics, obstetricians have viewed Cesarean section as a delivery mode that is either medically indicated or not. Times have certainly changed: According to new research from New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, nearly 1 in 5 women who had a Cesarean delivery after being in labor either requested or were offered a Cesarean delivery at some point during labor without a classic medical indication.