About 57 years after Cornell opened, Willard Straight Hall opened its doors Nov. 18, 1925. The building, bustling with music, dance and club meetings, achieved instant success and a richer student social life unfolded.
The Clinical and Translational Science Center at Weill Cornell Medical College harnesses resources of many institutions in New York to promote research from lab bench to bedside and to the community.
David J. Gross, the Frederick W. Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics and director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB, will give three talks on 'The Search for a Theory of Fundamental Reality.'
Alumni from Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are invited to participate in the second Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumni Forum on Saturday, April 18. More than two dozen classes will be available for the Cornell alumni and their guests.
Cornell has begun plans for a new child-care facility for faculty, staff and students. The center, for 158 children ages 5 and under, addresses a growing need for child care at Cornell and in the Tompkins County area.
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Susan Henry, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Dec. 12. Many of the Indian visitors were affiliated with the new Knowledge Initiative in Agriculture, an agreement between India and the United States. (December 13, 2005)
In a new effort to think about how to defuse student stress, professors and undergraduates sat down to talk together about the problem at an April 6 forum on academic rigor and student support. (April 14, 2011)
Hunter R. Rawlings III announced today his intention to retire from the presidency on June 30, 2003, and to assume a full-time professorship thereafter in the university's Department of Classics.
The university is moving to make all its Web sites -- from the Cornell front page to individual course sites -- accessible to all users, including those with visual, hearing or other disabilities. (Jan. 29, 2008)
Shelley Feldman, professor of development sociology, will bring an international perspective to Cornell's Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies program when she becomes its director July 1. (May 22, 2007)