Editor's picks for events the week of Dec. 12 include midyear graduation, Neanderthal sculpture, Middle Eastern folk tales and a concerto competition. (Dec. 11, 2008)
Cornell received its highest-ever number of applications for freshman admission, and a record number of underrepresented minority students are among those offered admission to the Class of 2021.
Undergraduates in the lab of Nelson Hairston, the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Environmental Science, perform scientific research in a supportive atmosphere.
A vigil for Nicholas Kau, a student who died Jan. 10 in New York City, will be held Jan. 16 in Manhattan, and funeral services will be Jan. 17. A campus memorial service is being planned for next week. (Jan. 15, 2009)
An expansion of the Cornell and Columbia university libraries' collaboration will grant greater access to materials for students, faculty and staff of both institutions. (July 15, 2011)
The Department of Theatre, Film and Dance is adopting curriculum changes as part of a new model emphasizing student experiences, innovation, collaboration and teaching media and performance. (May 19, 2011)
Four grants awarded from the Summer 2009 Seed Grant Competition are intended to promote research on foreign policy and international development as well as international studies in general. (Dec. 16, 2009)
A South Korean student worked with staff at the Schwartz Center to build set and shoot his film as an example of the cross-disciplinary collaboration that will be a model for the future. (Nov. 28, 2011)
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Tretheway read from her work, including 'Native Guard,' at the Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Reading Feb. 25 in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium. (March 4, 2010)
Jeffrey Gettleman '94, the East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times, won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting April 16. He was cited for vivid reporting at personal peril. (April 16, 2012)