Professor Thomas Gilovich delivered this year’s distinguished faculty invitational lecture on principles of social psychology and wisdom Oct. 22 in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Student organizations shared their services and provided stress-reducing activities at the second Caring Community Celebration, held April 26 in Willard Straight Hall. (April 28, 2011)
The Affinito-Stewart Grants Program administered by the President's Council of Cornell Women has awarded eight women assistant professors research grants totaling $49,200. (Aug. 22, 2011)
Art critic and historian Donald Kuspit will give a free and public lecture at Cornell on Tuesday, April 23, titled "Dialectics of Decadence: The Weight of History on Contemporary Art" at 5:15 p.m. in Room 115 of Tjaden Hall.
Starting June 2, the east-facing apse window of Sage Chapel will undergo a complete restoration, along with other renovations. The project is targeted for completion by January 2015.
J.C. Seamus Davis will receive the 2009 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for Superconductivity Experiments for his study of the behavior of electrons in high-temperature superconductors.
The award recognizes young scientists with 'highly innovative, impactful, interdisciplinary accomplishments in the life sciences, physical sciences and engineering.' (Nov. 17, 2009)
Cornell University will celebrate its 135th Commencement Sunday, May 25, with more than 6,000 graduates receiving degrees at a ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. on Schoellkopf Field. President Hunter Rawlings, who will present the commencement address and confer degrees, will preside over his eighth and final commencement ceremony as Cornell's president. He is retiring from the presidency June 30 and will assume a professorship in the university's Department of Classics. The commencement ceremony caps two days of celebratory events at Cornell. (May 13, 2003)