A book by Gregory S. Alexander, Cornell professor of law, has been named one of the best scholarly works of 1997 by the Association of American Publishers. Alexander's Commodity and Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Clifton R. Wharton Jr., a former deputy secretary of state, chancellor of the State University of New York system and chairman of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and the College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), will give the Messenger Lecture at Cornell University on Thursday, April 18, at 4:30 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall. The title of the free and open lecture is "Presidential Politics and Foreign Policy: Diminishing America's Global Stature."
Local nonprofits and small businesses in Ithaca and surrounding counties and the Cornell University community are the immediate beneficiaries of this year's Park Service Leadership projects. MBA students selected as Park fellows at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management have been working on the service projects for the past two years. Their aim: to leave something of lasting value in the community, learn leadership skills in the process and make community service a lifelong habit. (May 14, 2003)
Ranking as one of the world's greatest scientific and social achievements, the Green Revolution saved millions from starvation in the 1960s and 70s. Now, faced with increasing population growth, environmental degradation and problems of hunger, Cornell University scientists believe the future is bleak.
Cornell's Class of 1971 was witness to an especially tumultuous era of campus unrest, peaking with the takeover of Willard Straight Hall by black student activists on April 19, 1969.
During a Reunion Weekend forum, June 9 in…
With great expectations, the $162 million, 263,000-square-foot building designed by architect Richard Meier will open officially in October, though key residents are starting to move in this month. (June 6, 2008)
On Cornell's West Campus, students hang out with faculty members who serve as house fellows, and a new Cafe Scientifique series brings faculty and students together for intellectual discussion. (Oct. 24, 2007)
Brooklyn-born Cornell graduate Lee Bienstock, B.S. '05, a business analyst with Accenture, a global management consulting company, is in the final stretch on Donald Trump's "The Apprentice," on NBC.
He's hoping that Cornellians…