Gilbert E. Levine is serving as interim director of the university's Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies through June 30, 2009. (Jan. 6, 2009)
Artist Laurie Anderson discusses her upcoming "Dirt Day!" performance Sept. 21 at the State Theatre; she also joins Roald Hoffman on an art and science panel Sept. 22 at the Museum of the Earth.
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art holds a free seven-hour 40th anniversary celebration Sept. 20, with a public reception for fall exhibitions, performances in the galleries and a '70s dance party.
Events this week include classic horror films at Cornell Cinema, a reading by four alumni writers; and an exhibit and artists' talk tracing utopian progress through architecture.
The Association of American Universities, led by President Emeritus Hunter R. Rawlings III. released a statement Sept. 17 to member institutions including Cornell on the importance of the federal investment in such research.
The College of Arts and Sciences has just approved four new minors: Near Eastern studies; creative writing; minority, indigenous and third world studies; and English. (April 12, 2012)
Cornell University has joined Say Yes to Education Inc., a national nonprofit organization that helps children from urban school districts attend, and pay for, college.
On its first-ever Giving Day, March 25, the university received donations from more than 9,600 people totaling $6.97 million dollars. The gifts, mostly made online, came from people in every U.S. state and 52 countries on six continents.
The second in a series of perspectives articles on sexual violence prevention and response, this interview discusses the process of reporting and responding to a report of sexual assault.