Each summer, the Cornell Institute for Biology Teachers instructs middle and high school biology teachers on new teaching methods and activities, and the teachers don't have to pay a dime. (July 27, 2009)
When sound editors needed the twitterings, hoots and songs of a chiffchaff, burrowing owl, European robin, song thrush, common nightingale and rooks at a rookery for 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,' they called on Cornell's Macaulay Library
The unique Teatrotaller (Spanish for theater-workshop), a mix of academics and performance in Spanish, has been going strong ever since Cornell students founded it in 1993 to promote Latino cultures. (Feb. 26, 2010)
Events on campus this week include an open house for the new Cornell Intercultural Center, 'Ask an Editor,' filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky, and a colloquium talk on the arts by former Provost Don Randel.
International Education Week, Nov. 17-21, is part of an annual worldwide event in which educational institutions and embassies share culture and promote international exchange. (Nov. 7, 2008)
Events on campus this week include new exhibitions at the Johnson Museum, 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' in Sage Chapel, best-selling novelist Gary Shteyngart and a book talk on calories and politics. (Aug. 30, 2012)
On March 23 Cornell held a Library Salon at Lighthouse International in Manhattan that focused on the 1911 Triangle factory fire and the ILR School's Kheel Center collection and website about the fire. (March 28, 2011)
Science, art, new technology and rigorous fieldwork have culminated in an exhibition in the Mann Library gallery of 'bug's-eye-view' photographs of tiny fungi, on view through Feb. 27. (Feb. 6, 2008)
Blasting the media as an 'engine of falsification,' feminist columnist Katha Pollitt spoke her mind April 11 in a lecture at Carl Becker House. (April 17, 2007)