'Mind and Memory,' a popular public lecture series and undergraduate course, has received a $5,000 grant from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The grant will help support the 'Mind and Memory' series, directed by Diane Ackerman under the aegis of the Society for the Humanities.
President Hunter Rawlings outlined a seven-point plan of action for campus residential housing that provides a unifying educational experience for new students, preserves most student choice in housing and continues the current range of housing options.
Two new courses for food science and undergraduate business majors teach leadership and team-building skills with help from Cornell's Team and Leadership Center. (March 4, 2008)
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Twenty-four undergraduates from Cornell University are spending this summer interning with community-based organizations serving New York City's poorest children and families. And an additional nine Cornell graduate students are collaborating with agencies serving the city's poor. Members of the media are invited to attend a public forum at the Cornell Club in New York City on Wednesday, July 23, from 5 to 7 p.m., during which students participating in this year's Cornell Urban Scholars Program will discuss the results of their summer internship placements and collaborative research activities. The club is at 6 E. 44th St. (near Grand Central Station). (July 17, 2003)
The Shelburne Playhouse, one of the Catskill Mountains' remaining jewels from the golden age of small resort hotels, was repaired and stabilized by a volunteer group of Cornell historic preservation planning (HPP) students and alumni -- along with some local helpers.
Adherents of Islam – estimated at more than a billion people, or about one-fifth of humanity – have too often been misunderstood, stigmatized and marginalized by the non-Islamic world, say three scholars based in Ithaca. By introducing Westerners to their religion’s underlying principles of justice, they hope to bridge huge gaps in understanding and respect. Their vehicle for crossing that bridge is a new book.
The shrinking population of nursing assistants is a "hidden time bomb" and an impending crisis that will implode the entire nursing home system in the next few decades if drastic measures aren't taken soon, says a Cornell social gerontologist and nursing home expert.
The process that makes human beings human is breaking down as disruptive trends in American society produce ever more chaos in the lives of American children. The gravity of the crisis threatens the competence and character of the next generation of adults -- those destined to be the first leaders of the 21st century, according to five leading Cornell professors in a new book.
James A. Perkins, who as president of Cornell from 1963 to 1969 led the campus during its most tumultuous years of social change, died August 19 in Burlington, Vt. He was 86.
The Latino Studies Program at Cornell University begins its Fall Colloquium Speaker Series with a free public lecture by Laura Pérez, professor of ethnic studies at the University of California Berkeley, Thursday, Sept. 28, at 4 p.m. in Room B30 of Goldwin Smith Hall.