Cornell computer science students are using computer games to attract public school students to computer science with a free after-school course in game-making. (March 4, 2009)
Harry Potter, teaching math in prison and discussing sexuality in Hong Kong - such pursuits have become possible since Professor Emerita Sally McConnell-Ginet retired. (May 12, 2010)
President David Skorton thanked employees for 'staying the course' and continuing to accomplish goals despite a smaller workforce in his annual talk sponsored by the Employee Assembly. (Oct. 13, 2009)
The Cornell assistant professor of astronomy works on instrumentation that searches the night skies for planets outside our solar system, called extrasolar planets. (Oct. 12, 2009)
A symposium at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, N.C. celebrated the work of Cornell's A.R. 'Archie' Ammons, the late Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry who also was a Wake Forest alumnus. (Nov. 22, 2010)
President Martha E. Pollack recently spoke to the Chronicle about how universities innovate, the critical importance of free speech and academic expression on campus, and what has surprised her most about Cornell so far.
The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca, March 10-12. The full board will have a brief open session beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, March 12, in B09 Sage Hall on the Cornell campus.
Journalists Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn '81 discussed how the economic empowerment of women is the best strategy for fighting poverty worldwide in a talk April 29 on campus. (May 4, 2010)
At a testimonial dinner, administrators, alumni and colleagues thanked retiring Johnson Museum of Art Director Frank Robinson for his 19 years of service to the museum and Cornell.