Top executives from Pixar, the animation studio that created "Finding Nemo" and "Monsters, Inc.," and other animation experts who, collectively, have won six Oscars, will be on the Cornell University campus, April 19-22, to meet with students interested in the digital arts. They will give four free public talks, one each day, as well as take part in small-group sessions with students in Professor Donald Greenberg's classes on art, animation and technology. The visit and talks are part of Digital Arts Graphics Week at Cornell and the prestigious Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture Series at the College of Architecture, Art and Planning's Department of Architecture. Co-sponsors at Cornell are the Program of Computer Graphics, the Faculty of Computing and Information Science and the Department of Architecture. (April 16, 2004)
A national effort to rethink how graduate students in science, technology, engineering and math fields are trained was the topic of a Feb. 14 American Association for the Advancement of Science panel that included remarks from Bruce Lewenstein, Cornell professor of science communication.
On Jan. 2, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations’ new New York City headquarters and conference center opened in the historic General Electric building at 570 Lexington Ave. Several other Cornell colleges, units and programs will soon be using space in the building.
Cornell will accept the Universal College Application as well as the Common Application from prospective freshmen and transfer students seeking admission. The university also has extended the regular decision deadline one week to Jan. 9, 2014.
Fiction writers Lydia Peelle '00 and Rattawut Lapcharoensap '01 are winners of 2010 Whiting Writers' Awards, a prestigious $50,000 award given to up-and-coming writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. (Nov. 2, 2010)
Faculty will share ideas on climate change April 21-23 at the Smithsonian's Earth Optimism Summit, while students ascend Capitol Hill on April 21, and then walk in the national Science March on April 22.
Brian Crane, Barbara Crawford, Rui Hai Liu and Rosemary Stevens have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society.
The Cornell Undergraduate Information Competency Initiative held its summer institute May 24-28 to help faculty members develop new ways to improve student research skills in their classes. (June 3, 2010)
Assistant professor of architecture Caroline O’Donnell's "Party Wall" installation at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City earned praise at its June 27 opening for its sustainable and innovative design.