Events on campus this week include contra dance and salsa, a talk by Roberto Sierra, violinist Leonidas Kavakos, Soup and Hope, special museum events, lectures on computers, the Internet and privacy. (Jan. 27, 2011)
Students have organized Mental Health Awareness Week Oct. 16-23 to draw attention to the need for students to take advantage of campus services to help them cope with stress and other issues.
One hundred years ago Hu Shih, Class of 1914, donated a collection of 300 Chinese books to Cornell Library to benefit future Chinese students' study. (Dec. 15, 2011)
The robust startup scene in Ithaca helps diversify the region’s economy, speakers said at the “State of Ithaca’s Startup Economy” event, hosted by the business incubator Rev: Ithaca Startup Works.
Susan Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, expressed the university's condolences on the deaths of Clayton DeFisher and Adam Frey during the university's winter break.
Kent Hubbell, Cornell's dean of students, moonlights as an architectural designer of such Fiberglas fabric structures as the one sheltering the Chene Park Performing Arts Complex.
Mats Rooth, a Cornell linguist, will use software to study distinctions of prosody (rhythm, stress and intonation) in language by hunting for word patterns on the Internet. (Jan. 4, 2010)
The $85 billion in automatic, across-the-board federal spending cuts that went into effect March 1 - the sequester - may eventually cost Cornell $28 million universitywide.
Bringing together scientists from Cornell and elsewhere, the symposium will cover a wide range of applications, from cell culture to de-icing. (May 9, 2011)
Actor Jimmy Smits, MFA '82, returned to campus Dec. 6 to accept the Cornell Alumni Artist Award, and shared his experiences with students at a question-and-answer session.