More than 3,000 tickets were sold for the Oct. 16 Fall Employee Celebration, where staff, faculty, retirees and their families gathered at Barton Hall for a chicken barbecue and pasta dinner. (Oct. 19, 2010)
Nature writer Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, considered a classic of environmental literature, will present a public lecture at Cornell, Tuesday, March 26. Titled "Homework: The Art of Sustainability," Williams' talk will be in Auditorium D of Goldwin Smith Hall on campus beginning at 7:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public, and no tickets are needed. (March 8, 2002)
Institute for the Social Sciences grants support several faculty research projects in human development, government, communication, engineering and anthropology.
Graduate students in the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Department of Communication at Cornell University are sponsoring a conference, "Science for Sale?: Public Communication of Science in a Corporate World," April 15-17 on the seventh floor of Clark Hall on the Cornell campus. It is free and open to the public. "Science for Sale?" is an interdisciplinary weekend conference for exploring the mediation of science in a corporate environment. (April 12, 2005)
Close to 150 faculty, staff and students attended the June 26 opening of the East Campus Research Facility, which promises to increase the quality of live-animal research done at Cornell across various life science disciplines. (June 27, 2007)
Almost the entire permanent collection -- more than 27,000 objects -- of Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art will be made available for viewing on the World Wide Web over the next two years.
The Appel Institute for Alzheimer's Research at Weill Cornell Medical College will seek to better understand the debilitating disease, develop treatments and eventually find a cure.
Three Cornell graduate students are among 27 awardees of the 2010-11 Intel Ph.D. Fellowship Program, which has contributed more than $1 million to support top doctoral candidates across the nation. (Oct. 11, 2010)
Julia Thom-Levy, professor in physics and vice provost for academic innovation, talks about Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation and new teaching and learning methods that are enhancing the student experience.