Events on campus this week include a visit from A.D. White Professor-at-Large Anne Carson, an alumni fiction reading, a public lecture by Arun Gandhi, and films for Valentine's Day Week.
Carol Jean Buckley, a student services supervisor in Cornell University's Olin Library and member of the Cornell Savoyards, died at her home on June 24. She was 40.
Hip-hop's founders toured Cornell's rare book archive in Kroch Library during their visit to campus April 14, seeing some highlights assembled by rare book curators Katherine Reagan and Laurent Ferri. (April 20, 2011)
Cornell University experts predict that the 103rd dragon spawned on campus will emerge from its lair Thursday, March 18, and they have issued a dragon warning and road-closure alert. Vehicular access to central campus will be restricted from 12:30 to approximately 3:30 p.m. Buses could be rerouted or delayed when the dragon emerges from its lair in Rand Hall at approximately 1 p.m. The dragon will travel east on University Avenue, then south on East Avenue, then west on Campus Road. It will lumber through Ho Plaza and enter the Arts Quad, between Uris and Olin libraries, before proceeding to the south side of Rand Hall. (March 15, 2004)
How do organizations get workers onto the 'road less taken' when most people will choose the roads they know will pay off? Cornell researchers have found that incentives for trying something new may work.
Ted Lowi will receive the American Political Science Association's 2008 James Madison Award, which recognizes a career of scholarly excellence. It is one of the highest accolades of the profession. (April 10, 2008)
Among the 6,000 graduates to fill Shoellkopf Stadium was Tom Nuttle '51, who missed his own commencement when he was sent to the Korean War. Nuttle walked with his granddaughter, Molly Ryan, who graduated today. (May 24, 2009)
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)
In 2009, then-Michigan professor Martha E. Pollack gave the Salton Lecture to the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell. On April 17, 2017, she will become the university's 14th president.