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.
Events on campus this week include lectures on mental health, sustainability and care for seniors; Cornell Winds concert; Turkish cinema; book readings; and an underwater vehicle demonstration. (Nov. 18, 2010)
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Events on campus this week include photography exhibit, debate on Obama, Rubberdance Group, several book signings at the Cornell Store, literary luncheon, history walk, and lectures on whales and rice. (Oct. 14, 2010)