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.
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.
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.
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.
Events on campus this week include a Biotech Open House, yoga at the Johnson Museum, and lectures exploring mycology history at Cornell and hip-hop culture.
Sara Warner, associate professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, has published her first book, 'Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure.' (Oct. 26, 2012)
The Cornell Center for Materials Research has been approved for a six-year, $23.2 million extension of funding from the National Science Foundation to continue its mission of research, education and outreach.
George Paul Hess, professor emeritus of biochemistry and a pioneer in the study of a class of proteins called ion channels that allow specific small molecules to enter cells, died Sept. 9.
Students Kelley McElfresh ’16, Devin Hegelein ’17 and Katie Kraft ’17 are making substantial contributions to sales and manufacturing at Ithaca Hummus in Groton, New York.
Practicing Arabic in Cornell's Language House, students planned Spring Break research in an Arab Spring democracy - until terrorists attacked their destination.