Revisiting a hallowed ritual for doctors, a committee within the Weill Cornell Medical College convened this spring to craft an updated Hippocratic Oath, one that responds to the state of modern medicine. Written in ancient Greece, the oath expresses principles still fundamental to the practice of medicine today. (June 22, 2005)
Phillip Valentine Tobias, one of the world's leading experts on prehistoric human ancestors, will give a lecture at Cornell University on Thursday, April 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. The lecture is presented as part of the A.D. White Professors-at-Large series.
Investments in upstate New York's Canal Corridor communities are generating a much broader range of jobs, among them high-skilled, high-paying jobs throughout the region, a Cornell University study released today shows.
While Chuck Feeney's name is not attached to any building or professorship, the Hotel School graduate is behind only Ezra Cornell and A.D. White in his overall contributions to the university, according to President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes. (Sept. 27, 2007)
Offering career networking for students and reviewing recent developments at their alma mater will be the focus of the annual spring conference of the President's Council of Cornell Women when it meets on March 7-9.
Kent L. Hubbell, the Nathaniel and Margaret Owings Professor of Architecture, has been named Cornell University's dean of students, Susan H. Murphy, vice president for student and academic services. The five-year appointment is effective July 1.
Kent L. Hubbell, the Nathaniel and Margaret Owings Professor of Architecture, has been named Cornell's dean of students, Susan H. Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, announced June 19.
The intellectual and academic genius of the Africana Studies and Research Center (ASRC) at Cornell was fully evident in a brilliant display of scholarship and celebration April 29. In a keynote address that crowned a colloquium on Brown v. Board of Education, Cornell alumna and legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw (Class of 1981, Africana studies) delivered a nuanced discussion of the challenges faced by the "post-Brown generation" of black students entering law schools in the 1980s and her efforts to put critical race theory on the academic map.
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Women's Voices From Union Square, an original musical play about the 14th Street square's role in American labor history, will be performed in New York City, May 1-12, in honor of Labor History Month. The play's author is Dorothy Fennell, a Cornell University labor historian, and its producer is the New York City extension office of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). Performances, which feature several off-Broadway actors, begin May Day (May 1) at the Tenement Museum's Theater on Orchard Street in Lower Manhattan and continue there and at other venues in New York City through Mother's Day (May 12). (April 25, 2002)
Rigorous scholarly reflection on vital matters of social consequence has been a hallmark of Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center's educational mission from the outset 35 years ago.