Families, school children and community groups throughout North America are expected to participate in the seventh annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), Feb. 13-16.
Two free public events will mark the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at Cornell University in February. On Tuesday, Feb. 5, at 5 p.m. in Sage Chapel, the speaker will be the Rev. Amos Cleophilus Brown Sr., the pastor of San Francisco's Third Baptist Church since 1976. On Wednesday, Feb 6, at noon, Brown will participate in a panel discussion titled "African American Political Empowerment: Preparing for 2004" in the Founders Room of Anabel Taylor Hall on campus. The Rev. Kenneth Clarke, director of Cornell United Religious Work (CURW), will serve as moderator. Other panelists will include: James Turner, Cornell professor of Africana studies, and Dorothy Cotton, who was education director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference under King. (January 29, 2002)
In such sports as basketball and baseball, U.S. national teams are the perennial "overdogs," invariably liked by Americans and hated by the rest of the world. But in soccer, the world's most popular spectator sport, the U.S. Men…
Concerns and criticisms about proposed changes to the Campus Code of Conduct and Cornell's judicial system were voiced at a Feb. 5 public forum. (Feb. 7, 2007)
Three Cornell alumni were named to positions of significant responsibility at the Johnson Graduate School of Management in 1999: John D. Nozell, MBA '83, .Angela P. Noble, MBA '94 and Michelle C. Berry, M.P.S. '92,.
The outpouring of emotion following Princess Diana's untimely death shows, better than any other recent event, how the way we publicly mourn has changed, says Cornell faculty member Gail Holst-Warhaft.
The future of particle physics in the United States has never been as imperiled as it is now, says economist Harold Shapiro, president emeritus of Princeton University. Failure to act, he says, could mean missing out on…
Give New Yorkers the opportunity to buy more state-produced maple products and New York maple-syrup producers could reap profits five times greater than what they make now.
So says Stephen Childs, an extension associate in…