Events this week include Light in Winter Festival activities, new exhibits at the Johnson Museum of Art, inspirational talks at Sage Chapel, and a lecture on archaeology and photography. (Jan. 14, 2010)
Resources abound – on Cornell’s Gorge Safety website, on signs along the Botanic Gardens’ trails and through the work of the gorge stewards – to help visitors safely explore and enjoy Cornell Botanic Gardens’ Natural Areas.
More than 125 students brainstormed, coded and met with community nonprofits as they sought solutions to problems as part of the Random Hacks of Kindness event Nov. 13-15 on campus.
L. Pearce Williams ’49, Ph.D. ‘52, who taught the history of Western civilization and the history of science for four decades at Cornell, died Feb. 7 in Ithaca. He was 87.
Twenty-nine Cornell undergraduates spent their summers working and conducting research in communities across New York state as Cornell Cooperative Extension interns.
Qing Li, a visiting scholar from the Beijing Dance Academy, is being hosted by the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance through the spring, to study American teaching in dance. (Jan. 11, 2011)
For the first time, a Cornell Speech and Debate Society student team made it to the grand final of the World Universities' Debating Championships, held this year in Cape Town, South Africa.
Faculty members Kenneth Kemphues, genetics; John Lis, molecular biology and genetics; and Sandra Vehrencamp, neurobiology and behavior, were among 198 new members elected.