A special 10-foot sound cube will be in the Kenneth Goldman Lounge of the Duffield Hall atrium Thursday, March 30, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., offering a unique, multichannel immersive sound environment.
The MorrowSound Cube, a 3-D…
To shed light on the ethical debates sparked by Patrick Tierney's book Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon , Cornell University will host a three-day public conference April 5-7, 2002 that includes speakers from the Yanomami tribes of Brazil and Venezuela as well as leading anthropologists and cultural-rights activists. Organizers hope the conference will provide an important missing element of this ongoing debate about the ethics of native research -- namely, the Yanomami themselves. The conference, "Amazon Tragedy: Yanomami Voices, Academic Controversy and the Ethics of Research," begins Friday, April 5, at 3:15 p.m. in the David H. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall (March 25, 2002)
Ira Mellman, the Sterling Professor of Cell Biology and Immunobiology, and chair of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale University's School of Medicine, will present a seminar, "Generation and Maintenance of Epithelial Cell Polarity," Friday, March 12, at 4 p.m. in Cornell University's Biotechnology Building, Room G10. The lecture is free and open to the public. The seminar is part of Cancer Biology Lectures, a formal series of seminars by outstanding cancer researchers hosted by the Cornell University/Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Partnership and Cornell's Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. (March 08, 2004)
Milton Curry '88 looks back on his six years as director of the Cornell Council for the Arts and says he sees more opportunities for interdisciplinary intellectual engagement among faculty and students. (July 23, 2008)
Thomas O'Rourke illustrates the effects of the World Trade Center destruction with a quote from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land: "The awful daring of a moment's surrender/ Which an age of prudence can never retract/ By this, and this only, we have existed." For O'Rourke, the Thomas R. Briggs Professor in Cornell's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the poet's words sum up the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001: a moment of unforeseen catastrophe that society will pay for with "an age of prudence." O'Rourke and Cornell colleagues have spent the past two years analyzing the impacts that brought down the twin towers. By studying this and other disasters, O'Rourke says, engineers will be able to give valuable advice to a society still struggling with how best to avoid future tragedies. (May 29, 2003)
President David Skorton prioritized faculty renewal in his State of the University Address June 9 during Reunion Weekend. He also announced that the naming of the new humanities building that will break ground in 2013.
The last few years have been trying for the financial industry, said banker and philanthropist Sanford Weill '55, but with strong leadership and smarter regulation, signs point toward a steady recovery. (June 12, 2010)
Cornell President David Skorton announced that $25 million from the family of John Dyson '65 will establish a new school - the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. (June 8, 2010)
It doesn't take much imagination to see that preventing falls, brightening dark and depressing spaces, and generally making environments habitable can be among the most important elements for improving the health of the elderly.
Enabling excellent teachers to remain in the classroom beyond retirement -- and allowing them to devote their talents to teaching undergraduates -- is a major challenge for universities today. Thanks to the generosity of two of its alumni, Andrew H. Tisch '71 and James S. Tisch '75, Cornell University is prepared to meet that challenge. The Tisch brothers have established a unique, distinguished professorship at Cornell that honors excellence in teaching and extends the undergraduate teaching role beyond retirement. (April 10, 2002)