The Department of Ecology and Environmental Biology (EEB) will celebrate its 50th year – and the university’s 150th – with a Sesquicentennial Colloquium series in the fall and spring semesters.
Cornell Law School professor Charles Whitehead has launched a venture to help boost tech startups in Ukraine, focusing initially on Kyiv and Kharkiv, the two largest cities in the country.
A five-year, $20 million National Science Foundation grant will allow chemists from Cornell and other institutions to study new ways to make plastics more sustainable.
Events on campus this week include a museum party, spring dance concerts, student films, a reading by MFA fiction writers and poets, and all five Beethoven piano concertos conducted by Leon Fleisher. (May 3, 2011)
Students from a spring Gender Archaeology class joined instructors Lauren and Chris Monroe along with Israeli students and faculty at a new dig site in Israel over the summer.
Cornell is celebrating the Bombay poets, who transformed English-language Indian poetry from flowery to gritty in the second half of the 20th century, with an exhibition and symposium.
Steve Reich '57, whose "Double Sextet" won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009, spoke with self-deprecating humor about his music and his life at age 80 during the Olin Lecture June 9 at Bailey Hall. The event was a highlight of Reunion.
The Institute for the Social Sciences' new three-year theme project will examine causes and outcomes of U.S. mass incarceration and contribute to the prison reform policy debates on incarceration.