In his State of the University address Oct. 19, President David Skorton said fiscal year 2007 was Cornell's most successful fundraising year in its history, with $754.8 million in new gifts and commitments. (Oct. 19, 2007)
Entrepreneurship@Cornell's 2010 Celebration event, April 15-16, features symposiums, networking events, an expo and events honoring the 2010 Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year.
Events on campus include a Cornell Cinema benefit and dance party, a rare 17th-century opera, young ornithologists sharing their research and a University Lecture by Islam scholar Sherman Jackson.
Daniel Huttenlocher, the John P. and Rilla Neafsey Professor of Computing, Information Science and Business and a Stephen H. Weiss fellow, has been named one of 38 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery. (Dec. 10, 2007)
Today, the Big Red faces the Cardinal of Stanford at about 5 p.m. EDT on CBS. This NCAA experience is about learning to cope under a social microscope, smiling under pressure and acknowledging cheers, and the team is savoring it all.
An interdisciplinary, regional conference entirely organized and conducted by Cornell graduate students will be held on campus May 7-9 in Room 401 Warren Hall. The Second Annual Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy.
Jan Willis '69, M.A. '71, the daughter of a Baptist deacon from Alabama and former campus activist, now is a chaired professor of social sciences at Wesleyan University and a prominent scholar-practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism.
Events this week include the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Pi Day, a Science Cabaret on insects in pop culture, a reading by poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg and Union Days at the ILR School.