Darryl Epps is among the hundreds of men incarcerated in New York who have transformed themselves through the Cornell Prison Education Program. CPEP reduces recidivism and saves taxpayers millions with college behind bars.
More than 150 Orientation Week events - including six New Student Reading Project 'Android' lectures - will welcome about 3,200 first-year and 550 transfer students to campus Aug. 20-24. (Aug. 16, 2010)
President David Skorton got off on the right foot at the 161st New York State Fair in Syracuse Aug. 23 by taking Cornell Cooperative Extension's "Choose Health" walking challenge, a 4-H initiative. (Aug. 24, 2007)
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)
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.
Events this week include a Black History Month community discussion, 'The Phantom of the Opera' in Sage Chapel, Emancipation Proclamation exhibit tours and an artist residency with Ellen Fullman.
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.
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 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.
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)