Ithaca Tangueros is hosting Tango! a concert and dance performance Saturday, Oct. 30, at 7:30 p.m., in the Statler Auditorium at Cornell. The show includes live tango music and performances by some of the finest Argentine Tango couples dancers in the world.
Elie Wiesel will speak in Bailey Hall on the campus Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. Imprisoned in the Nazi death camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald at age 15, Wiesel survived to write about the horrific experience in such books as Night.
Jerome M. Ziegler, former dean of Cornell's College of Human Ecology, is applying a lifetime of acquired knowledge and skills related to education and passing them on to school principals in an innovative professional education program.
NEW YORK -- Weill Cornell Medical College, together with The Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, will receive $50 million over three years from The Starr Foundation to develop new resources and expertise in stem cell research, helping to position the three institutions' scientists as leaders in this competitive new field.
ARECIBO, PUERTO RICO -- Talia Kohen always pictured herself in law school after college. But she figured that plan left her free to pursue a bachelor's degree in pretty much anything, so she decided to indulge her analytical side and spend her undergraduate years studying electrical engineering.
As certain clairvoyant groundhogs lead the charge toward spring, Cornell climatologists say that, statistically, the bulk of winter's bad weather already may be behind us as of Feb 2.
Stephen F. Bollenbach, president and CEO of Hilton Hotels Corp., spoke about how Hilton responded to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at a talk at Cornell University Nov. 30. One franchise, the Millennium Hilton next to the World Trade Center, had its entire front blown off following the attacks on the twin towers.
The video testimonies of four recovering alcoholics, all pioneers in the field of alcohol abuse prevention in the workplace, lend an authentic voice to the ILR School's Oral History Project. (Feb. 29, 2008)
Harold D. Craft Jr., Cornell University's vice president for administration and chief financial officer, announced today, Nov. 14, that he will recommend to the Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees the appointment of Joanne M. DeStefano as vice president for financial affairs and university controller, effective Dec. 6.
Events on campus this week include playwright Lauren Feldman '01 at the Schwartz Center, former Black Panther Charlotte O'Neal, talks on poetry and Vietnam, and the 36th Festival of Black Gospel.