During their three-week winter break tour, the Cornell Chorus and Glee Club traveled through Guatemala and Mexico, where they they filled churches, sang at orphanages and made a studio recording.
Steve Marschner was selected as the 2015 recipient of the Computer Graphics Achievement Award for modeling natural materials such as hair, skin and fabric.
Record totals in attendance and fundraising efforts are anticipated at Reunion 2016, June 9-12. The weekend features a packed itinerary of talks, forums, receptions, concerts, tours and other activities.
Delve Deeper, a course co-taught by Cornell research librarians in partnership with faculty and staff mentors, is preparing undergraduates as scholars with advanced research skills.
A student team that devised a plan to sell certain public tweets to Google and Microsoft has won first prize in the university’s second annual Stephen S. J. Hall Ethics Case Competition held March 7 at the School of Hotel Administration.
Events at Cornell include free concerts, lectures and performances; an intensive workshop on grape-growing and winemaking, an outdoor screening of 'Psycho' and the annual Staff Development Day.
Twenty-eight of Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's essays are collected in a book edited by Jeffrey Kovac and Michael Weisberg, published Jan. 23 by Oxford University Press.
Cornell's 147th Graduation Weekend highlights include the Senior Convocation Address by Gabrielle Giffords, M.R.P. '96, and her husband, Mark Kelly and the Commencement Address from David Skorton.
On May 21, the Cornell Merrill Presidential Scholars Program honored 33 outstanding graduating seniors and the high school teachers and university faculty members who made important contributions to the students' lives.