A disturbingly different American landscape is on the horizon if immigration reform in Congress can’t provide enough legal workers, agribusiness panelists predicted Dec. 10 at Cornell.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Douglas Wilder, the former governor of Virginia and a national political figure, will give a lecture at Cornell University at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in Uris Hall Auditorium. The lecture, titled "Social and Political Challenges in the '90s," is free and open to the public. On Jan. 13, 1990, Wilder achieved a milestone when he was sworn in as the first elected African-American governor in U.S. history. Notably, his election occurred in a state that was once a cornerstone of the Confederacy and that had once denied Wilder admission to its law schools.
Stuart MacDonald Brown Jr., a former Cornell administrator and professor who was an authority on the philosophy of ethics and political theory, died March 18 at the Reconstruction Home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 80. He died from complications of a stroke, said his wife, Catherine D. Hemphill.
The Cornell Board of Trustees has named six faculty members J. Thomas Clark Professors of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise. The three-year appointments foster participation in the Entrepreneurship@Cornell program by…
A Cornell program, Small Steps Are Easier Together, is reaching out to rural communities and workplaces to get women to be more active and eat more healthfully to lower breast cancer risk. (Aug. 3, 2009)
An ambitious project that deploys big data and uses machine learning to understand the ecological impacts of hydropower dams in the Amazon Basin started in a mundane enough setting: on the sidelines at youth baseball games.
Cornell development sociologist Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue is working to improve Francophone African students' training in population science so they can help improve policies in their home countries. (Dec. 15, 2008)
A recognition ceremony for January 2006 graduates was held Dec. 17 in Barton Hall. About 200 undergraduates, 25 master's degree candidates and 10 Ph.D. candidates participated. (December 20, 2005)
First-year and transfer students explored the nature of being human, living with technology and other topics at six faculty lectures Aug. 22 on Philip K. Dick's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' (Aug. 23, 2010)