The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences offers weeklong leadership training workshops twice a year to help faculty members improve their interpersonal skills. (Feb. 2, 2009)
The Cornell Art Faculty Exhibit at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art samples the creative output and traditional and nontraditional approaches of 15 faculty members, all of them working artists.
Liz Emrich, a collections…
In its efforts to land the 2012 Olympic Games, New York City has turned to Cornell University for help. To complete its application, the city has asked Cornell's Center for the Environment to put together a plan for conducting a global impact study and a team of prominent environmental.
More than 100 City and Regional Planning alumni will return to campus Oct. 15-16 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of planning at Cornell, with events including alumni panels and an exhibit. (Oct. 6, 2010)
Michael Kammen, the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture at Cornell, has been honored by the Library of Virginia with an award for his 1999 nonfiction book, Robert Gwathmey: The Life and Art of a Passionate Observer, published by the University of North Carolina Press.
Events this week include a community panel with police, hip-hop artists and scholars; an Oscar party; Karl Pillemer on making love last; plays at the Schwartz Center and films by Amie Siegel.
Associate professor Riché Richardson recently spent a week in Paris as a cultural envoy. She gave talks, and her art quilts depicting Barack Obama, Josephine Baker and Simone de Beauvoir were exhibited. (Jan. 22, 2009)
Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced a new task force to address the problem of employee misclassification. The announcement referenced an ILR study, 'The Cost of Worker Misclassification in New York State.' (Sept. 18, 2007)
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz, M.F.A. '95, will visit campus in February to kick off a yearlong 'Centennial Plus Five Celebration of Creative Writing at Cornell.' (Jan. 21, 2009)