Forty alumni from the Cornell in Honduras trips in the 1960s will reconnect June 13-14 after all these years to reminisce and reflect on how the trips impacted their personal and professional lives. (June 3, 2010)
Event highlights on campus from Nov. 18-Dec. 2 include a play based on Charles Mingus' autobiography, high-wire artist Philippe Petit and professor of history Richard Polenberg's last lecture. (Nov. 17, 2011)
The Sick in America series begins April 20 and will highlight issues of health care from the perspectives of physicians, patients, economists and policymakers.
Cornell University alumni and longtime benefactors Robert J. and Helen H. Appel have committed $15 million to support the second phase of the university's Residential Initiative, a new living and learning environment for upper-level students on West Campus, Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced recently. (February 14, 2002)
The annual Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) community program to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. will be Monday, Jan. 17, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The program is free and open to the public. The 11th annual event will include a buffet luncheon, performances by local choirs and a keynote speech by Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman. (January 10, 2005)
Cornell and extension are helping upstate municipalities engage in a dialogue about merging or sharing services to be more sustainable. (April 2, 2009)
The government of India has named Cornell economist Kaushik Basu as its new chief economic adviser in the Ministry of Finance. He will be on leave from Cornell for two years, beginning in December. (Nov. 5, 2009)
William B. Lacy, director of Cornell Cooperative Extension, has been elected president of the Rural Sociological Society for the 1998-99 academic year, the sixth time a Cornell professor has held the post.