One of our country's most unique features is its racial, ethnic and cultural diversity. But America also is characterized by its substantial and persistent social and economic inequality.
'Big Idea' competition winners included a system to alert consumers to potential savings with their credit cards and an invention to deter robbers in poor countries. (April 22, 2010)
The College of Architecture, Art and Planning will explore the design and environmental and social impacts of Tata Motors' new car in 'Unpacking the Nano,' opening in January at the Johnson Museum. (Nov. 10, 2010)
Filmmaker Doug Block '75 brings his film-festival hit, '51 Birch Street,' a personal documentary about his parents' marriage, to Cornell Cinema Oct. 24.
Cornell Cooperative Extension leaders gathered for 'Bridging the Gap Between Science and Service: the First 100 Years of Cooperative Extension,' at the Cornell Club in Manhattan Nov. 1. (Nov. 3, 2011)
City and regional planning students presenting their work from New Orleans' 9th Ward May 9 in Sibley Hall are continuing their department's New Orleans Planning Initiative. (May 8, 2008)
This year's event recognized 259 long-serving staff members who celebrated a fifth-year anniversary at 25 or more years of service to Cornell - collectively having given more than 8,200 years of service. (April 13, 2010)
International students and English-language teachers helped the Cornell Campus Club celebrate the 60th anniversary of the club's International Hospitality Committee, April 26. (May 7, 2008)
The Cornell Plantations' Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center was dedicated Oct. 28, culminating a decade of building and renovation projects at the Plantations. (Oct. 29, 2010)
Winter-weary eyes will find relief at Cornell Plantations, where early azaleas are now blooming and opulent rhododendron flower trusses soon will brighten with sumptuous reds and pinks. It's all happening on Comstock Knoll, the wooded hilltop near Plantations headquarters building, according to Plantations Horticultural Director Mary Hirshfeld, who says, "The best time to catch the peak bloom is around the end of May." Tucked in among the rhododendrons are sky blue flowers of lungwort, the golden yellow of fairy bells, the delicate white of Solomon's seal and the rich golds and greens of unfurling hosta leaves and fern fronds. (May 19, 2004)