Cornell plans to invest up to to $46 million in energy conservation. The goal? Reducing energy use by as much as 20 percent and taking a big step toward a zero-carbon footprint. (March 10, 2011)
Writer, teacher and public speaker Allan Johnson will give a presentation, "Unraveling the Gender Knot," Friday, Nov. 21, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the auditorium of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall on the Cornell University campus. The presentation is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served at 9:15 a.m. (November 19, 2003)
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca, Thursday, May 26, through Sunday, May 29, during the university's Commencement weekend. The full board will meet from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. Friday, May 27, in Room 196 in the Beck Center of Statler Hall and again Saturday, May 28, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in Sage Hall on the Cornell campus.
Edward Lawler, chair of the Strategic Planning Advisory Council, sits down with the Cornell Chronicle to talk about what the council is up to, and what its activities mean for Cornell.
Cornell alumna and legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, professor of law, Columbia University and the University of California-Los Angeles, will deliver the keynote address for the Africana Studies and Research Center's conference "Brown vs. Board of Education: Race and Education 50 Years Later."
Jason Koski/University PhotographyMike Skelly of Fayetteville-Manlius and Kristina Fanghanel, who teaches in the Victor School District, work on a laboratory activity. This year's workshop was the first time the Cornell Institute…
Paul Rusesabagina, the hero portrayed in the Oscar-nominated movie "Hotel Rwanda," will deliver a public lecture, "Hotel Rwanda: A Lesson Yet to Be Learned," Wednesday April 20, at 8 p.m. in the Statler Auditorium on the Cornell University campus. Tickets are $5, available at the Willard Straight ticket office. All proceeds will benefit the Genocide Intervention Fund. (April 12, 2005)
Events on campus this week include martial arts in theory and practice, a grand tour of Rome at the Johnson Museum, and 'Faust' with live musical accompaniment Halloween night in Sage Chapel. (Oct. 25, 2012)
Harold Tanner '52 supports programming for students on West Campus, naming the house fellow program for Hunter Rawlings, who spearheaded the residential initiative. (Feb. 14, 2008)
Nominees for the 1996 Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony are now being accepted by the Dean of Students Office at Cornell. The $5,000 annual prize was established last year by Trustee Thomas W. Jones and was presented at an award ceremony in the A.D. White House on Thursday, May 4.