The eighth Cornell Entrepreneurship Summit NYC will be held in Manhattan Nov. 8 and will feature eight entrepreneurial business leaders speaking in TED-style talks and fireside chats.
S. Kay Obendorf, who retired in June after 50 years at Cornell in the College of Human Ecology, was honored Sept. 8 with the unveiling of a quarter-scale model of “PolyForm,” an architectural art installation by Jenny Sabin at Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
Peter Lepage, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will step down June 30, 2013. He will have served for 10 years, longer than all but one of the college's 19 previous deans.
Cornell University is a state of mind, and both a beginning and a destination, much like the "Ithaka" of C.P. Cavafy's poem about Ulysses' journey home, said President Elizabeth Garrett at her inauguration as Cornell's 13th president.
Ambassador Daniel Fried ’75 will share his perspectives gained during his 40-year career in the foreign service as this year’s LaFeber-Silbey lecturer.
Don Banfield, a senior research associate specializing in planetary sciences at Cornell University, comments on Martian dust storms like the one threatening NASA's Opportunity rover. He says it's important to consider the risks associated with dust storms, like the one that has silenced the Opportunity rover, when designing future missions to Mars.
March 12 will mark Cornell’s sixth Giving Day, a 24-hour fundraising celebration in which Cornellians come together to support the areas they care most deeply about – and engage in some friendly competition.
Scholar-activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore will discuss proposed policing alternatives and the possibility for change as the 2016 Krieger Lecturer in American Political Culture March 3 at 4:30 p.m.
The exhibit “More than Reported: Images of Black Women from the Cornell Hip Hop Archives” features music and media icons from the 1970s through the early 2000s. It runs through June.
