Topics ranging from contemplative gardens to urban jungles fill the Fall 2004 Cornell Plantations Lecture Series at Cornell. The long-running series moves to a new location in the renovated Alice Statler Auditorium of Statler Hall.
Jewish leadership camps are big business today, with parents lining up to enroll their high school-age children in them, but the effectiveness of such programs has never been measured quantitatively -- until now. As part of a senior thesis research project, Noah Doyle, an undergraduate in Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) from Commack, N.Y., is measuring whether such programs actually create leaders. "To what degree do the participants transfer the skills learned over the summer to their everyday lives? And how do such programs specifically develop Jewish leadership?" he asks. (October 21, 2002)
A conversation with architect and alumnus Richard Meier about the design of Weill Hall in relation to the campus and designing a building to meet the needs of its users. (Oct. 10, 2008)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Africana and Latino Greek Letter Council (ALGLC) at Cornell University is presenting its annual music, entertainment and fashion benefit called Greek Freak '96 in Bailey Hall, on the Cornell campus, April 18. Tickets for Greek Freak '96, open to the public, are $5 in advance and $6 at the door. Tickets can be purchased from ALGLC members. For more ticket information, or for information on becoming a sponsor of the event, call Vaughn Lowery at 273-5043.
Cornell Cinema will host three documentary filmmakers March 10-12 to present their "real world work" on war in Darfur, on a landmark American hate crime and on the history of the African diaspora. All screenings are in Willard…
At 99, Robert Halgrim had one remaining wish -- to be honored by Cornell University. In 1927, his mentor and employer, Thomas Edison, arranged for him to attend the university's College of Agriculture where Halgrim studied horticulture. But two years into his degree, Edison requested that he return to Florida to tutor the great inventor's grandchildren. And Halgrim never returned to Cornell.
A community program to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center, 318 N. Albany St., on Monday, Jan. 20, from 11:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Allison Sacheli at the Canandaigua Farmers Market.
POTTER, N.Y. -- When the demand for her onion jelly grew way beyond family and friends, Allison Sacheli needed help adapting her recipe for commercial production. That help came…
"Kids when they're five don't make up stories like that." "We'd had sex before, and I didn't see it as rape." "You feel you must have done something wrong." These are the voices of survivors of sexual assault, and Jason Dilley, a San Francisco--based artist, believes they are too seldom heard.
Step away from the pen, holster up a gene gun, and give your readers, viewers and listeners something they can chew on: Your very own genetically modified organism.