Cornell Hillel's Board of Trustees has announced that Barbara Friedman '59 will be the first recipient of the Tanner Prize for her significant contributions to the Jewish people and to Cornell University. The prize will be given to Friedman at an honorary luncheon April 21 at the Cornell Club in New York City.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The committee for the 1996 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is inviting proposals from community organizations and agencies. Applications are due by April 19, 1996. Established at Cornell University in 1994 through a grant of $100,000 by the Tompkins County Trust Co., the award is named for the bank's former board of directors chairman, who is the W.I. Myers Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Finance at Cornell.
A reorganization announced July 1 by Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings and Provost Biddy Martin promises to streamline the structure of computing and information science instruction, tying the Department of Computer Science.
Events this week include Indian classical and jazz concerts, the fifth annual Insectapalooza, the first Economics Art Gallery exhibition, and lectures on public school reform and civil liberties. (Oct. 1, 2009)
Five individuals who have dedicated their lives to feeding and housing the homeless will participate in a lecture series this spring at Cornell. The lecture series is part of Cornell's Housing and Feeding the Homeless Program, which began in 1988.
A new team has been named to lead the Cornell Migrant Program (CMP) and to suggest ways to restructure the program to better meet the changing and complex needs of New York's agricultural community, including migrant and other farm labor, their families and communities. The announcement was made today by the deans of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and College of Human Ecology (CHE), and the director of Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE). (May 14, 2004)
Does obesity play a role in employment disability? Can certain neighborhood designs influence residents' physical activity? Does level of education relate to whether people will start or quit smoking? Can daily telephone interviews capture how busy working parents cope with family meals?
Levels of a pivotal signal processor in the brain are reduced significantly in people with schizophrenia, a study by scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College, The Rockefeller University, and University of California at Irvine (UCI) has found.
Twenty-six black and Hispanic high school students from Washington, D.C., will learn that a university education is within their reach when they are hosted by Cornell University urban planning students and professors this Aug. 9-13.
Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman of the board and CEO of General Electric Co., the world's most profitable industrial company, will give the 2004 Hatfield address, April 15 at 4:30 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall on the Cornell University campus. There will be overflow seating, and closed-circuit television viewing of the talk, in PepsiCo Auditorium, 305 Ives Hall. The talk is free and open to the public. (April 8, 2004)