At the crossroads of arts and sciences at Cornell stands a very popular attraction: a Monday afternoon lecture series on "Mind and Memory," that has fast become an academic rite of spring.
"Work is at the core of human dignity," says Leila Janah, CEO and founder of Samasource, which connects poor people with tech jobs, during the Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture.
Event highlights on campus include the Cornell Concerto Competition, an economic outlook conference focused on agribusiness, a ceremony for January graduates and the Winter Employee Celebration. (Dec. 8, 2011)
Cornell’s pioneering, engineering women – Kate Gleason, Nora Stanton Blatch and Olive Wetzel Dennis – advanced the science of their discipline beyond all expectation of their male peers.
A team of Cornell researchers has used cyclodextrin, the same material found in the air freshener Febreze, to develop a technique that could revolutionize the water-purification industry.
Kathryn S. March, Ph.D. ’79, professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, reports from Nepal, where she has worked since 1973.
Researchers have teased out which immune-related genes are turned on and off in the Panamanian golden frog following infection of a fungus that is deadly to amphibians.
Sharon H. Kim and Christopher Yenkey, both Ph.D. '11, received the Academy of Management's William H. Newman Awards for their papers based on their dissertation research. (Aug. 31, 2011)
Events on campus this week include Dump and Run, free cinema for new students, sustainability and international studies fairs, downtown panel discussion, Welcome Weekend events, consciousness lecture. (Aug. 19, 2010)