About one-fifth of the world's population lives in dire poverty, and the already very skewed gap between rich and poor keeps growing. Some 800 million people don't have enough to eat. The consequences of such destitution are malnutrition, environmental degradation and worldwide instability. These circumstances also leave millions of people with nothing to lose, who become ripe for turning to international terrorism in their frustration and need to be heard. So says Per Pinstrup-Andersen, the H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy at Cornell University. To try to develop a shared vision that combines ethics and economics to counter world poverty, hunger and malnutrition, he has organized a workshop, "Ethics, Globalization and Hunger: In Search of Appropriate Policies," to be held Nov. 17 to 19 at Cornell. The highlight will be a free public lecture by Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and now the executive director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, an organization dedicated to supporting human rights. Her address, "Social Justice, Ethics and Hunger: What Are the Key Messages?" will be given Thursday, Nov. 18, at 8 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman will introduce Robinson, who will field questions after her remarks. (November 09, 2004)
Provost Biddy Martin today (April 25, 2001) issued a statement concerning Cornell's plans for the renovation and improvement of its Africana Studies and Research Center.
Steven Holl's stunning cubic design, with its transparent and translucent facades and Cayuga Lake and Fall Creek gorge views, is the clear winner in Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning's design competition.
Oliver Stone, one of Hollywood's most controversial and celebrated filmmakers, will give an address on the Cornell campus Sept. 29 at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Outstanding teaching ability was formally recognized at the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award Convocation on April 12, led by Acting Dean Philip E. Lewis in Kennedy Hall Auditorium. The audience of about 250 people included members of the Arts and Sciences Advisory Council as well as honorees and well-wishers from departments and programs across the college. The awards and their recipients, all Ithaca residents, were as follows:
Arguably the two most important figures in history will be the topic of a lecture at Cornell on April 18, given by noted historian Francis E. Peters. He will be discussing not the Jesus of faith, but the Jesus of history and how historians approach both him and Muhammad.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Arguably the two most important figures in history will be the topic of a lecture at Cornell University on Thursday, April 18, given by noted historian Francis E. Peters at 4:30 p.m. in Room D of Goldwin Smith Hall. Peters, a professor of Near Eastern languages and literatures and history at New York University, will give a University Lecture titled "Jesus and Muhammad: An Essay in Comparative Historiography." Peters will deliver this semester's final University Lecture, the most prestigious forum Cornell offers visitors who come to campus to deliver a single address. His talk is free and open to the public.
Many of the Cornell students who live off campus call Collegetown home during the academic year. But Collegetown is also home to year-round residents and families, private homes and large apartment complexes, and a bustling business district.
Scientists in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are using the facilities and expertise of the Cornell Theory Center to turn reams of weather and climate data into practical advice for New York farmers.
Richard Trumka, a third-generation coal miner from Pennsylvania who rose to become a leader of the AFL-CIO, the most powerful union the United States, will be this year's pre-Labor Day speaker at Cornell University. Trumka's public lecture, "What's at Stake: the Future for Working Families," on labor, the economy and the 2004 election, will take place Thursday, Sept. 2, from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. in 105 Ives Hall. The talk, which is sponsored by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), is free and open to the public. (August 30, 2004)