Karen Katen, president of Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals, a division of the multinational health-care firm Pfizer Inc., will deliver the 2003 Lewis H. Durland Memorial Lecture on Nov. 20.
"The whole issue of sustainability is a difficult one, because it's sustainability for how many and at what standard of living? This we should never forget," said Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug, speaking April 29 as part of the closing centennial observance of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at Cornell.
"My talk today will be mostly from the vantage point of black Americans, which, of course, is my perspective. But I want to be clear that I view the celebration of diversity to be inclusive of all groups in our society." The Hon. Harry Edwards '62, chief judge emeritus, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, prefaced his speech with these words April 30 when he spoke about his experiences as an African-American student during the 1960s and about issues facing minority students, then and now. Edwards, who received a standing ovation after his speech in Bartels Hall at Cornell, was one of several keynote speakers at last weekend's conference, "Cornell Mosaic: Celebrating Diversity and Advancing Inclusion."
Jason Koski/University PhotographyThe Cornell Wind Ensemble plays during inauguration, Sept. 7 on the Arts Quad.Lindsay France/University PhotographyThe Cornell Klezmer Ensemble performs "Tzi Azoy," with lyrics in Yiddish that…
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At 11 a.m. on Sept. 7, Cornell President David Skorton's inauguration day, the grass on the Arts Quad was still wet from the morning fog. A sea of 3,399 empty, white chairs fanned out from the round stage on the west side of the…
A five-day intensive professional development program for health executives is slated for May 4 through 9 at Cornell. The Health Executives Development Program, now in its 39th year.
In a provocative and often-humorous guest sermon, "So Far, So Good, So What?," on April 10, the Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes discussed the past, present and future of Sage Chapel and expressed his views on the role that religion plays at modern universities.
Joel Perlman, BFA '65, was 14 when he decided to become a sculptor. He was a scrappy scholarship kid at Fieldston School in the Bronx then, hard hit by the recent, sudden death of his father from a heart attack at 47.
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Some pundits are predicting that Ralph Nader could be President Bill Clinton's nemesis come November. Members of the Cornell and Ithaca communities can make that judgment for themselves on Tuesday, April 23, at 8 p.m., when the consumer advocate, lawyer and presidential hopeful gives a lecture in Cornell's Bailey Hall.