On April 15, a workshop for nonprofit groups organized by Michelle M. Thompson, a visiting lecturer in Cornell's Department of City and Regional Planning, took place at Albert R. Mann Library.
Without enough estrogen-like hormone in their systems, female plainfin midshipman fish turn a deaf ear to the alluring love songs of the males. And, according to Cornell biologists, a similar steroid-sensitive response could underlie changes in the hearing sensitivity of humans.
Cornell's Summer College -- one of the nation's first summer programs for high school students -- is offering full scholarships for students from high schools in Tompkins County. A special fund has been established to provide two full scholarships a year for the next five years.
Terrence Fine, Cornell professor of electrical engineering and statistical science, has been named director of Cornell's Center for Applied Mathematics.
On Monday morning, July 10, David Skorton's Day Hall office was nearly bare: clean white walls, empty bookshelves, subdued olive and beige furniture and the light smell of fresh paint. Just a few personal touches had crept in --…
Exhibition of political Americana opens in Cornell's Kroch Library 'VOTE!' in time for 2000 election. The exhibition of campaign memorabilia from the Susan Havey Douglas Collection of Political Americana.
Events on campus this week include a poetry reading by Julia Alvarez, the Johnson Museum's Tarjama/Translation exhibit, Cornell Campus Club coffee hour and flood relief in Pakistan and India. (Sept. 2, 2010)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management will award full-tuition, two-year Park Fellowships to 30 entering MBA students beginning in the fall of 1997. The fellowships are named for the late Roy H. Park. Funding will be provided by the Park Foundation. Alan Merten, the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of the Johnson School, said the establishment of the Park Fellowships will enable the school to attract the best students. "The Park Fellowships help propel the school into the next century by enabling us to compete aggressively for the best students and thus meet the demands of the corporate community," he said.
Outstanding teaching ability was formally recognized at the Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award Convocation on April 12, led by Acting Dean Philip E. Lewis in Kennedy Hall Auditorium.
Cornell's statutory colleges will hold an Open House for prospective freshmen students on Saturday, Oct. 21, and a Transfer Day for prospective undergraduate transfer students on Friday, Nov. 3.