Events this week include "Eurydice" at the Schwartz Center; the 2016 Local Fair at Mann Library with local food, fiber products and crafts; and International Education Week events and exhibitions.
In July President David Skorton visited Ethiopia to congratulate graduates of the inaugural class of Cornell's MPS degree program in international agriculture and rural development at Bahir Dar University. (Aug. 14, 2009)
A career diplomat and United Nations official, a British economist, a Caltech astronomer, a regional development expert, and a Colombian novelist and political activist began six-year terms in 2007. (Feb. 28, 2008)
Will Dichtel, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, whose innovations may allow for ample electricity and for detecting trace amounts of explosives, has received a 2015 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
ArtLinks allowed viewers of a statue in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art to record their reactions and view the perceptions of pervious viewers. (Feb. 27, 2008)
At the first Cornell Conference on International Development, held Sept. 15-16, a panel discussed opportunities, inequalities, women's rights and more. About 160 alumni and dozens of students and faculty attended. (Sept. 18, 2007)
A Dec. 16 conference, co-organized by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers, examined the psychological and neurological consequences of war. (Dec. 18, 2009)