Partisanship and bureaucratic fragmentation are major challenges today's U.S. foreign policy, professors said during the discussion "America and the World," June 7 during Reunion.
Cornell is the major research partner in a consortium that is creating culturally acceptable insurance products to reduce the impact of extreme weather on some of the developing world’s most vulnerable populations.
Freshman Emily Choi was named the winner of the 7th annual Cornell Concerto Competition, held Dec. 12 in Barnes Hall, for her performance of the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. (Dec. 20, 2010)
A Cornell Master in Architecture program studio will visit the 2010 World Cup sites in conjunction with their design projects addressing the challenges of a global event for its host country.
A career diplomat and United Nations official, a British economist, a Caltech astronomer, a regional development expert, and a Colombian novelist and political activist began six-year terms in 2007. (Feb. 28, 2008)
Cornell will test its emergency notification systems at 12:10 p.m. Wednesday, April 14. These systems include the sirens/public address system and voice and text messaging. (April 8, 2010)
Writer Elie Wiesel, a Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, will speak in Cornell's Bailey Hall April 29 at 6 p.m. Tickets are free from the Willard Straight Hall and Clinton House box offices. (April 7, 2010)
Professor of service operations management Sherri Kimes is developing a project to "give students a virtual international experience” as Cornell's newest Menschel Distinguished Teaching Fellow.