The accomplishments of 24 staff members who earned associate, bachelor's, master's or doctoral degrees through Cornell's Employee Degree Program or the Tuition Aid Program were celebrated May 24.
To make the graffiti look real on the set for the upcoming performances of 'Romeo and Juliet' in the Schwartz Center, Ithaca High's Graffiti Club and Cornell students will add their graffiti designs. (Nov. 3, 2009)
Life sciences majors in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Agriculture and Life Sciences can now minor in business through the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics. (Jan. 17, 2011)
Cornell professor N'Dri Assié-Lumumba has been elected vice president of the Comparative and International Education Society for 2013-14 and will assume the society's presidency in 2015-16.
Ten Cornell faculty members in computer science and engineering have received Google Faculty Research Awards. Cornell has the third-highest number of recipients among the 80 institutions worldwide that received Google awards.
An update from the Office of the Assemblies, including brief reports from the Student Assembly, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Employee Assembly and University Assembly.
Political luminary Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J., highlights Cornell University's 145th Graduation Weekend May 24-26. Booker speaks May 25 at the Senior Convocation, while Commencement is held May 26.
Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, permanent representative of Vietnam to the U.N., will speak on "Vietnam in the 21st Century," Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 4:30 p.m. in Philip Lewis Auditorium, G76 Goldwin Smith Hall.
During the Jewish Diaspora, rabbis maintained a sense of community by developing eruvim - ritual boundaries around communities, said a Jewish scholar May 4 in an Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture. (May 6, 2010)