While flag burning, bra burning and Robert Mapplethorpe's racy photographs have tested the limits of free speech over the past few decades, a Cornell Law School professor applauds these active demonstrations of dissent.
Cornell announced Sept. 22 that the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education has closed its investigation of a complaint alleging that the University maintains racially- and ethnically-segregated residence halls.
While ornithologists consider cowbirds the parasites of the bird world - commandeering the nests of other birds, hoarding their food and causing starvation - Cornell behavioral researchers know these songbirds have a redeeming quality.
Hunger and poverty in the United States are severe enough to significantly impair the academic and psychosocial development of school-age children and adolescents, according to two studies at Cornell University.
Janet Corson-Rikert, a Cornell University physician since 1992 and interim director of University Health Services for the past year, has been named director.
G. Peter Lepage has been appointed the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University, Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman announced today (Dec. 17). Lepage, former chair of the university's Department of Physics, had been serving as interim dean of the college since July 1, 2003. "Peter Lepage personifies the greatness of the College of Arts and Sciences. He is a true intellectual, a researcher whose work has deepened understanding of the fundamental structure of the material world," said Lehman. "He is a great educator, dedicated to the ideals of a liberal education. And he is a natural leader, a person whose generous spirit and determined vision have contributed to the ongoing progress of his department and the college itself." (December 17, 2003)
To shed light on the ethical debates sparked by Patrick Tierney's book Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon , Cornell University will host a three-day public conference April 5-7, 2002 that includes speakers from the Yanomami tribes of Brazil and Venezuela as well as leading anthropologists and cultural-rights activists. Organizers hope the conference will provide an important missing element of this ongoing debate about the ethics of native research -- namely, the Yanomami themselves. The conference, "Amazon Tragedy: Yanomami Voices, Academic Controversy and the Ethics of Research," begins Friday, April 5, at 3:15 p.m. in the David H. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall (March 25, 2002)
Because of the enthusiastic response to the news that Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu is giving an open lecture at Cornell April 10, the venue for the address has been changed and free tickets now are required.
A new publication from the Cornell University Retirement and Well-Being Study provides an in-depth look at how the older Americans fare through the transition to – and in – retirement.
Michel Camdessus, former managing director and chairman of the executive board of the International Monetary Fund, will be the 2001 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellow at Cornell University, April 9 and 10.