Nine Cornell alumni will be honored Sept. 26 with the Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Awards for their outstanding long-term commitment as Cornell volunteers. (Sept. 26, 2008)
Four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali will be the featured artist for the Lauren Pickard '90 Emerging Artist Series Monday, April 12, at Cornell University. His performance is free and open to the public. A noted poet, playwright and former sixth-grade teacher who has appeared in two seasons of HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry," Mali will bring his humorous, provocative, full-body poetry assault to the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room beginning at 7:30 p.m. (April 1, 2004)
Francille M. Firebaugh, professor and dean emerita of the College of Human Ecology at Cornell, has been given the new title of vice provost for land grant affairs to recognize her work with the contract colleges.
High school students Rachel Zax and Ryan Musa were the top winners in the inaugural North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad, March 29, which they entered at the invitation of Cornell professors. (May 29, 2007)
NEW YORK (February 1, 2005) -- To better address the acute medical needs of the growing number of adults aged 75 and older, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center has created a Geriatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship, a first-of-its-kind program for physicians who have completed their residency training in emergency medicine.
Scholars and collectors interested in African art have long focused their attention on traditional works -- particularly the wooden sculptures and ethnographic artifacts that may be seen in today's Western museums and are described in mainstream art history textbooks.
Students entering Cornell will consider a crucial moment in American history by reading and discussing Garry Wills' Pulitzer Prize-winning book for the New Student Reading Project. (Aug. 14, 2008)
Cornell Hillel students traveled to Ukraine June 15 for a nine-day service trip to serve elderly and disabled Jews, many of whom live in poverty. (July 24, 2008)
At its meeting on Friday, Jan. 23, the Board of Trustees approved a set of planning parameters for the 2004-05 budget that calls for a 4.8 percent tuition increase for most students in the endowed colleges.