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…
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.
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.
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.
Ten artists and intellectuals with personal and professional ties to Algeria will visit Cornell next week for a conference on the political and cultural issues facing this violence-racked nation in northern Africa.
Achieving genuine diversity -- both of race and class -- remains one of the major challenges in the field of higher education in the 21st century. That challenge was addressed from a variety of perspectives during a powerhouse symposium in July that featured five current and former university presidents and a Stanford scholar. (Aug. 11, 2005)
In an effort to increase public appreciation of the importance of mathematics, Cornell's Department of Mathematics is sponsoring its first annual public lecture.
On May 15 Cornell's Joe Veverka led a team of astronomers and engineers in a final pitch for the mission that would use the still-healthy Stardust spacecraft to visit the comet Tempel 1 two years after Deep Impact. (May 23, 2007)