At a talk in NYC Dec. 12, engineering professor Thomas O'Rourke urged better preparedness for natural disasters and surveyed the role of infrastructure in recent calamities. (Dec. 18, 2012)
Speaking to Cornell alumni visiting their alma mater, Cornell President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes talked about a reunion with the terra mater, mother Earth. Presenting the annual Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture June 10 during Reunion Weekend, he urged responsible social policies for the planet.
Cornell undergraduates with a passion for social change can exercise their instincts for community service and receive credits through the new Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels Undergraduate Action Research Fellowship Program.
A team of Johnson School students is competing in the Idea Village Entrepreneur Challenge this week in New Orleans, working on short-term, high-impact service roles in the city's revitalization. (March 23, 2010)
Fourteen prominent women from 13 countries toured the Law School March 15 and forged ties with faculty leaders of the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice. (March 17, 2010)
The Proskauer Rose Employment and Labor Law Assistant Professorship has been established for an ILR assistant professor who engages in scholarly work in conflict resolution and collective bargaining. (Nov. 3, 2010)
Author and educator Sandy Grande lectured on democracy and colonialism as it relates to both current events and the history of American Indians in "At the Crossroads of Democracy and Sovereignty: The Indigenization of America," Dec. 1 at Cornell. (December 13, 2005)
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin has announced the reappointment of Susan A. Henry as the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, for a five-year term.