Fifty Cornell students recently returned from three weeks in China over winter break as guests of the Chinese government and part of the 2009 Chinese Bridge Winter Camp for American Students.
Events on campus July 2-16 include free Arts Quad and Schwartz Center concerts, lectures by Rachel Dickinson and Jim Maas, family films, paddling at Beebe Lake and gardening at the Minns Garden. (July 1, 2010)
Students, Ithacans and city officials came together at a Town Hall meeting Nov. 15 to discuss the future of Cornell's housing master plan with respect to on-campus housing and housing in Collegetown.
Applications are now being accepted for DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowships and the Cornell-Heidelberg Exchange Fellowship for 2010-11. (Oct. 1, 2009)
Professors Sheila Hemami, Karl Niklas and David Lipsky have been named Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows for outstanding teaching and mentoring of Cornell undergraduates.
An innovative collaboration between Cornell University Press, the Cornell University Library and faculty members in German studies promises to create a new way of publishing scholarly books. (Sept. 7, 2010)
On the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, the accident’s chief investigator, cited some of the catastrophe's causes: the government's lack of transparency and 'groupthink.'
With great expectations Cornell will officially enter "the Skorton era" on Sept. 7. In a lively and colorful ceremony on the Arts Quad, David J. Skorton will be inaugurated as Cornell's 12th president.
The historic day's events…