Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil, will speak on 'Beyond the Global Financial Crisis: Politics, Economics and Culture' April 7 at 4:30 p.m. in Kennedy Hall's Call Auditorium. (March 31, 2010)
Four incoming freshmen from India are the first recipients of the Tata Scholarship for Students from India, creating the inaugural class of what could eventually comprise two dozen Indian undergraduates at Cornell. (May 6, 2009)
Physics graduate students have grand ideas for what they might find once their detector, the Compact Muon Solenoid at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), goes back online later this year.
To advance technologies that convert perennial grasses and woody biomass to ethanol, Professor Larry Walker will use a $10 million grant to upgrade Cornell's industrial biotechnology laboratories. (Jan. 18, 2007)
N.Y. -- Hilton Als, theater critic for The New Yorker magazine, is the winner of the 2002-03 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. The award, which carries a $10,000 prize, is administered by the Cornell University Department of English and is one of the most generous and distinguished in the American theater. Als was selected by a committee consisting of the chairs of the English departments of Cornell, Princeton and Yale universities, assisted by experts on the theater from those universities. The Nathan committee citation reads: "Whether he's discussing the latest directorial interpretation of Gypsy, the formidable acting talent on display in Vincent in Brixton, or the Harlem Renaissance background of Langston Hughes's Little Ham, Hilton Als offers his audience a lively mix of information and opinion in a literate style that cannot help but contribute to intelligent play-going." (December 15, 2003)
The 'Hooray for Gay: Pre-Stonewall Images from the Collection of Harry Weintraub' exhibition in New York city marks the 25th anniversary of the library's Human Sexuality Collection.
Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center marks its 40th anniversary with exhibitions, symposia and other events celebrating its history and considering the future of the field it pioneered.
Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced $15 million in Upstate Revitalization Initiative funding for the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, for storage ring and X-ray beam upgrades and job creation.