Two undergraduate students at Cornell University, juniors Lara E. Douglas and Benjamin E. Wolfe, have been awarded scholarships for the 2002-03 academic year by the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation. Cornell's Udall Scholarships are among 80 nationwide awarded from an applicant pool of 447, and cover up to $5,000 in eligible expenses for the year. Another Cornell student, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences junior Peter Hosner, was named an honorable-mention recipient of $350 for educational expenses. (April 25, 2002)
A symposium will be held at Cornell Dec. 10 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) and the associated research facilities.
There are many fundamental differences between the common law in the United States and continental Europe's civil law. But, "the human tendency to treat foreign as different and then make the unwarranted logical jump and also…
"We are all born with an enormous capacity for goodness and we all learn racism and other forms of oppression," says Kathy Castania, a multicultural expert at Cornell University. "We cannot be blamed for learning the racism we were taught, yet we have a responsibility to try to identify and interrupt the cycle of oppression."
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Education officials don't usually have to make life-or-death decisions on the job. But for Enver Halilovic, who was responsible for education in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the war there, moral questions loomed over his every mandate. "This was a real human problem as well as a moral problem, deciding whether or not children should go to school," he recently told students in a European history class at Cornell University. Though the United Nations had identified Tuzla as one of six "safe areas" in Bosnia, he said, it was shelled regularly by Serbian forces -- who often targeted schools.
Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation's first Greek collegiate organization established by black students at Cornell in 1906, will prepare for its centennial with a pilgrimage to Cornell on Saturday, Nov. 19.
More than 6,000 county residents -- about 9 percent -- are living below the poverty line, based on numbers provided by the Tompkins County planning department. (November 01, 2005)
The Graduate Record Examination does little to predict who will do well in graduate school for psychology and quite likely in other fields as well, according to a new study by Cornell and Yale universities. (Aug. 4, 1997)
Cornell is hosting the 30th annual meeting of SCT from July 18 to 26, bringing together an array of international scholars embodying interdisciplinary interests from humanistic and related disciplines, including English, comparative literature, history, political theory, film and theater studies.