The School of Hotel Administration honored the Mariani family, founders of U.S. importer Banfi Vintners, and entrepreneur Sandy Solmon June 3 in New York City.
The Curriculum Review Committee in the College of Arts and Sciences on March 7 released a draft Arts and Sciences curriculum proposal organized around modes of inquiry rather than topical content.
Messages in the online game Diplomacy reveal linguistic patterns that predict back-stabbing, according to a team of researchers at Cornell, the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado.
Cornell is the top-rated Ivy League school in Washington Monthly's third annual college rankings, and is cited in The Princeton Review's survey of the 366 best colleges. (Aug. 23, 2007)
Events this week include the Banff Mountain Film Festival, better botanical images through technology, Darwin Days, an Ai Weiwei documentary on refugees and migration, and a classic Yiddish tale in music and dance.
Gail Holst-Warhaft and Tammo Steenhuis traveled to Greece this summer to continue spreading public awareness on severe water shortages in the Mediterranean. (Sept. 4, 2008)