Renowned psychoanalysts and scholars will converge on the Cornell University campus Nov. 22-24 for an international and interdisciplinary conference titled "Legacies of Freud: Translations". The conference, free and open to the public.
With almost a century of experience, 93-year-old Elsie Frost McMurry, professor emerita at Cornell, played dress detective for 16 years, researching and writing in longhand thousands of manuscript pages for her study of American dresses from the 1800s.
Ten undergraduates are vying for prize money in the second Big Idea Competition for their creative business ideas. Watch their pitches and help determine the winners April 11, 4-5:30 p.m., in 196 Beck Center, Statler Hall.
The leader of the Los Angeles County Home-Care Workers Union, the second largest local in the nation, and a labor reporter for the Chicago Tribune who was a Pulitzer prize nominee are part of Union Days 2002 at Cornell University. This year's theme, "Unions, Democracy and Civil Society," looks at the role of the labor movement in achieving political and economic justice. Union Days, which aims to make students aware of the issues at the forefront of labor organizing, takes place at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Ives Hall, April 10-12. Events are free and open to the public. (April 3, 2002)
Cornell's statutory colleges will hold two special events this fall: Open House and Transfer Day. Young people interested in learning about undergraduate admission to three state-assisted colleges at Cornell are encouraged to attend.
Daniel F. Klessig, associate director of Rutgers University's Waksman Institute, has been named president of the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for Plant Research Inc.
When Shannon Price Minter, J.D. '93, returned to the Cornell Law School Nov. 16 to speak about the future of gay rights, he brought a unique perspective to bear on the issues.
Events on campus this week include several major concerts, readings, lectures on poverty, plants, kinship and women in the labor movement, new exhibits at museums and the Dyson School panels. (Sept. 23, 2010)
In a comprehensive study finds that an average increase in stricter high school graduation requirements results in a 3 to 7 percent jump in the dropout rate.
The Mars Exploration Rover, one of the two vehicles scheduled to explore the surface of Mars in 2004, is built and seemingly ready for its trip, complete with a full payload of scientific instruments— about two years in advance. But this is not the real rover.