The Cornell African Students Association will host a conference on sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa on Saturday, March 30, in Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium. Free and open to the public.
Richard Meier, architect of the Getty Center heads a list of distinguished artists, educators and critics who will offer insight into America's cultural climate and artistic professions during a symposium Oct. 4 and 5 at Cornell.
Events this week include the LEGO Expo in Duffield Hall, a Science Cabaret on bread for locavores, folk music and guitar lessons, films, and a reception for new exhibitions at the Johnson Museum.
A Cornell research group has discovered serious vulnerabilities in a widely-used peer-to-peer filesharing program. The weakness in LimeWire, a popular client for the Gnutella filesharing network.
Revolutionary scientific thinker Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, a leading software system for technical computing and symbolic programming, and chief executive of Wolfram Research Inc., will present a lecture Wednesday, Oct. 2, on the Cornell University campus. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be in David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall at 7:30 p.m., with a question period scheduled for 8:30. (September 24, 2002)
Tiffany Todo '06, Susan Dauber '06 and Juliana Eisner '05 work as designers, and Jessy Curro '05 is a merchandise manager at Steve & Barry's, the clothing retailer that launched the Sarah Jessica Parker clothing line BITTEN last summer.
Events on campus this week include a workshop on advocacy and interactive media, Islam Awareness Week, a day for entrepreneurs and lectures on Facebook, friendship and community and 'Porgy and Bess.' (April 5, 2012)
National Book Award-winning novelist and short story writer Denis Johnson hosted nine Cornell undergraduates enrolled in his seminar at a staged reading of his play 'Des Moines,' Feb. 29 at The Flea Theater in Manhattan. (March 4, 2008)
Reporter Beth (Jackendoff) Harpaz, a 1981 graduate of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences and author of the new book, The Girls in the Van: Covering Hillary (St. Martin's Press), will visit the Cornell campus Feb. 4.
A collection of writings by Edgar Allan Poe -- along with a jagged wooden fragment of his coffin -- will be on display at Cornell University Library just in time for Halloween.
The new exhibition, "Nevermore: The Edgar Allan Poe…