Cornell computer science students are using computer games to attract public school students to computer science with a free after-school course in game-making. (March 4, 2009)
Audrey Keranen '12 of Iowa City, Iowa, has been named a 2011 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs fellow. She is one of 20 Pickering undergraduate fellows this year. (July 6, 2011)
John Maxwell Anderson, professor emeritus of zoology at Cornell, who taught here from 1952 until 1979 when he retired, died Oct. 25 at age 94. (Oct. 31, 2011)
Sarah Victor '14, an ILR student, wrote and delivered the winning sermon in this year's Harold I. Saperstein '31 Topical Sermon Contest on American Ideals.
Co-founders of El Puente, the Brooklyn-based school and community youth development organization that nurtures holistic leadership for peace and social justice, will speak on "Education for Social Justice: El Puente," Wednesday, Sept. 25, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Goldwin Smith Hall Auditorium D on the Cornell University campus. The program, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Iscol Family Program for Leadership Development in Public Service, an interdisciplinary program in Cornell's College of Human Ecology. The program is designed to inspire undergraduate students to become leaders in public service who will address the intractable problems that face society, such as hunger, poverty, ignorance, homelessness and violence. (September 19, 2002)
A large-scale renovation of the library has been put on hold, but a smaller project is expected to include upgrading Olin's smoke detectors and fire alarms, and installing a sprinkler system. (Aug. 27, 2009)
When the pandemic abruptly shuttered school buildings across the nation in March, units across Cornell’s campuses swung into action to support K-12 learning virtually.
Thornton Wilder's satirical Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Skin of Our Teeth," which opens April 27 at Cornell's Schwartz Center for the Arts, is ostensibly about a typical American family in classic 1950s suburbia. But it also…
Using a technique that illuminates subtle changes in individual proteins, chemistry researchers have uncovered new insight into the underlying causes of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.