As Puerto Rico continues to recover from Hurricane Maria, Cornell is offering a free semester of study – including tuition, room and board – in spring 2018 for up to 58 students from Universidad de Puerto Rico.
Marco Recuay '03 earned a statue at the 2010 Creative Arts Emmy Awards Aug. 21 in Los Angeles. Recuay's Emmy is for Visual Effects in a Miniseries or Movie, for his work on HBO's 'The Pacific.' (Aug. 25, 2010)
Events on campus this week include: President Skorton on WVBR, lectures by the Unilever CEO and the 2011 physics Nobelist, King's Speech writer, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. (April 7, 2011)
Astronomy professor Jonathan Lunine testified before a House subcommittee March 3 to explain rationale for scientific, seafaring journeys to Jupiter's and Saturn's moons.
The new library Animal Legends exhibition opened with a lecture by Vice Provost Laura Brown on 'Love, Paradise, and the Rise of the Animal in English Literature,' March 4. (March 8, 2011)
Cornell Plantations has partnered with New York City's 92nd Street Y for its 'Changing Earth' lecture series. The seven-part series began in November and will take place monthly through May 2012. (Nov. 29, 2011)
Scholars will explore military conflict and security in a two-day conference, 'Accumulating Insecurity, Securing Accumulation: Militarizing Everyday Life,' April 17-18 at the ILR Conference Center. (April 15, 2009)
Doctoral student Meredith Ramirez Talusan, M.A. ’11, who studies comparative literature, serendipitously taught a Filipino woman how to knit. A year later she started a social enterprise that now employs 25 knitters in the Philippines.