Billionaire philanthropist Chuck Feeney, Hotel '56, spoke about his remarkable life June 10 in Bailey Hall as the 2011 Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecturer during Reunion Weekend. (June 13, 2011)
Events this week include the annual Dump and Run sale to benefit local charities, Glee Club and Chorus Orientation concerts, a lecture on trees in literature, events and lectures about sustainable seafood and new offerings by the Johnson Museum and Cornell Cinema.
Speaking Jan. 19 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Celebration in Ithaca, professor Locksley Edmondson said that Barack Obama's election does not indicate that America has become a 'post-racial society.' (Jan. 20, 2009)
Cornell University announced today that it will establish an integrated College of Business with the transformative excellence, scope and scale to cement the university’s position as a world-class center of teaching and research for business management and entrepreneurship.
Professor emeritus William Binnington Ward died April 27 at Cayuga Medical Center following a brief illness. A longtime chair of the Department of Communication, he served on the faculty for 63 years. (May 2, 2008)
Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times Iraq war correspondent and television news commentator, will deliver a free public lecture on Monday, Oct. 25, at 4:45 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall at Cornell University.
Two FMLA entitlements related to the military are new for Cornell employees: a qualifying military exigency leave and a military caregiver leave. The provisions take effect Jan. 16. (Jan. 15, 2009)
On April 25, associate professor of philosophy Karen Bennett will have 50 minutes at One Day University in New York City to tackle the 'Big Question': 'Why Are We Here?' (April 24, 2010)
While Cornell will never standardize all of its information technology, it must narrow down some of its IT options, said Steve Schuster, interim executive director of CIT, at an open forum Nov. 10.