Education is more effective when students feel their efforts make a difference in the real world, says Jack Elliott, who teaches a Cornell University course on environmental issues in design. That's why his students are helping a new National Park Service (NPS) building in the Grand Canyon get its "green" certification. His Ecological Literacy and Design class, the first such full-semester course in the nation, is teaching students how to implement the new environmental building standards set by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), a sustainable building-industry advocacy group. Pennsylvania State University has now followed with a similar course. (May 13, 2003)
Cornell University has teamed up with the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., to co-host a conference to create dialogues among public health, animal health and wildlife management experts from both government and the private sector. (November 23, 2005)
The story, says Cornell geologist Bryan Isacks, is usually pretty much the same. People study geology because they have a certain set of characteristics: They love physics and the outdoors; they're adventurous and curious.
Events this summer include a Fuertes Observatory viewing of the passing of Venus between the sun and the Earth, a six-week Latin dance series, and the 'Collecting Imagination' lecture and exhibition. (May 31, 2012)
M.F.A. candidate Lindsey Glover has won Cornell's inaugural Margaret Bourke-White Photography Portfolio Prize. Her entry will be on display outside the president's office through May. (March 10, 2008)
Events on campus this week include physicist Robert Lang on origami; a recital with violinist Midori; a reading by poet Dana Gioia and a play at the Schwartz Center about pain and friendship.
The future of information technology -- from wireless communications to new imaging systems -- is the topic of the 1996 Cornell Society of Engineers annual conference April 12 and 13 at Cornell.
The artist who gave the world its first glimpse of prehistoric life in 3-D and living color is the subject of a new special exhibition at the Museum of the Earth.
Peter Eisenman, world-renowned architect and 1955 graduate of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning, will deliver this year's Preston Thomas Memorial Lectures at Cornell.