Events on campus this week include a symposium on the latest cancer research, a gas drilling roundtable, a documentary on artist Anselm Kiefer, and gallery and garden talks at the Johnson Museum.
U.S. cities could see a decline in mortality rates and an improved economy through midcentury if the federal government maintain strong air pollution policies to diminish diesel freight truck exhaust.
Events on campus this week include First-Year Parents' Weekend, an exhibition of wearable art designed by students, alumni talks on imagination and biography, and animated films by Hayao Miyazaki. (Oct. 18, 2012)
Professor emeritus of city and regional planning Stuart Stein, who taught at Cornell from 1962 to 1993 and assisted in the creation of the Ithaca Commons and the TCAT bus service, died June 24. He was 84.
Jazz Spaces Ithaca, a series of performances that will bring prominent jazz players to Ithaca, will take place throughout the 2012-13 academic year. (Aug. 31, 2012)
Jack and Meryl '81 Mann recently donated $100,000 to endow a pre-major advising fund in the Office of Admissions and Academic Advising at the College of Arts and Sciences. (Sept. 30, 2011)
Asian studies professor Ding Xiang Warner wrestles with a thousand-year-old mystery in her new book, "Transmitting Authority: Wang Tong and the Zhongshuo in Medieval China’s Manuscript Culture."
Bridget Saracino '11, a theater arts major in the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance, has been awarded the 2010 Edward M. Murray Committee on the Arts Scholarship. (Nov. 8, 2010)
Philip Gourevitch ’86, staff writer for The New Yorker, spoke about the Rwandan genocide on campus Nov. 3 as the USC Shoah Foundation's genocide archive comes to Cornell.