Cornell's Fuertes Observatory has a new museum featuring vintage observatory instruments, many collected in the 19th century by Estevan Fuertes, founding dean of Cornell's civil engineering department.
ITHACA, N.Y. --Cornell University's Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large program will host two distinguished visitors this month: Lynn Hershman Leeson, professor of art in the Technocultural Studies Program at the University of California-Davis, and Jules Pretty, head of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Essex, England. Pretty will lecture on "Clarifying the Ends and Means of Sustainability: Some European Perspectives," Wednesday, April 20, at 4:30 p.m. in 401 Warren Hall. (April 12, 2005)
A dedication and formal ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the renovation of White Hall, one of Cornell University's three original buildings, will be held Friday, Sept. 12, from 4 to 5 p.m. on the university's Arts Quad in front of White Hall. The $12 million restoration project, completed in January 2003, was a top funding priority for Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. White Hall's renovated space, redesigned to enhance interdisciplinary research and teaching, is now home to the Departments of Government and of Near Eastern Studies. (September 4, 2003)
Madelyn F. Wessel, university counsel at Virginia Commonwealth University, has been named university counsel and secretary of the corporation for Cornell University. The first woman to hold the position, Wessel will start May 8.
The traditional sounds of chimes, orchestra and chorus will accompany the pageantry surrounding inauguration ceremonies for David Skorton - as well as jazz, steel drums, Latin, klezmer and electronic music.
Events at Cornell this week include a lecture by writer Joyce Carol Oates, Latin music on the Arts Quad, stargazing, films and an engineering symposium. (July 31, 2009)
Events this week include jazz concerts by Alicia Olatuja and campus and Ithaca ensembles; Darwin Days talks; Valentine's Day films, Oscar nominees and a documentary on Bill Nye '77.
Physicists discussed the revolutionary news that an experiment measured particles traveling faster than the speed of light at a physics department forum in Clark Hall Nov. 17. (Nov. 22, 2011)
In a panel discussion Nov. 12, four women from the Cornell community addressed complex questions about education, career and family during the all-day Women of Color conference. (Nov. 21, 2011)
A decade ago, when some of Wolfgang Sachse's graduate students began to dance tango, they invited him to watch. He brought his camera. "I was intrigued by what I saw: the connection between two persons moving beautifully through…