When Cornell art history Professor Robert G. Calkins was 17 years old, he took a bicycle trip through southern England and France. "I was swept off my feet," he said, by the countryside, the people and the antiquity he saw. Most of all, he was amazed and moved by the great cathedrals of Europe.
In the memorably hot summer of 1988 in Newton, Mass., Jack Connor murdered his mother, father and grandmother. He left their corpses in the family home for a week, their lifeless faces covered with his grandmother's underwear, rosary beads in their hands.
A Rochester developer has announced plans to construct a 106-room hotel at the corner of Route 13 and Warren Road in the Cornell Business and Technology Park.
The creation of an "Art Church" in Danby and a "Corn Street Garden" in downtown Ithaca are among the 1999 community outreach projects to be funded through new grants awarded by Cornell's Council for the Arts.
An agreement by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund a Cornell University-based consortium of institutions will help to establish the new Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC) here. NSF funding over a five-year period could reach $19 million.
Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings sent this letter today on Feb. 10 to the student organization Cornell Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
In an extraordinary partnership with NASA, the Akwe:kon (ah-GWAY-go) Press at Cornell University published a double issue of its award-winning journal, Native Americas, titled "Global Warming, Climate Change and Native Lands."