Marc Zawel, former managing editor of the Cornell Daily Sun, will return to his alma mater Thursday, Oct. 13, to talk about the national release of his first published work.
The results of the 200 students and others who submitted DNA samples as part of the Cornell Genetic Ancestry Project will be revealed April 14 at 4:30 in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. (April 7, 2011)
The Cornell English Department's Creative Writing Program will bring a roster of established and emerging fiction writers and poets to campus as part of its fall 2007 Reading Series. (June 1, 2007)
A new Cornell educational program, Partners in Animal Health, is offering state-of-the-art videos with 3-D animations on a variety of pet-care topics, including trimming a cat's claws and giving insulin to a diabetic cat.
Many bird lovers watch the live feeds from webcams on campus that film the nest life of ospreys and red-tailed hawks, and many become active volunteers and members of the growing community of cam viewers.
To engage teens in STEM fields through fashion design, Cornell offered a weeklong course, “Smart Clothing, Smart Girls: Engineering through Apparel Design,” July 14-18 to 33 middle school girls.
Porus Olpadwala, a city planning professor at Cornell University, has accepted the deanship of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He had been interim dean of the college since July 1998.
A new architectural firm has been chosen to design Milstein Hall, the future home of Cornell University's Department of Architecture. Barkow Leibinger Architects (BLA) was the unanimous choice of the Cornell committee that made the decision.
Isaac Kramnick, a 30-year Cornell University faculty member who serves as the Richard J. Schwartz Professor and chair of the Department of Government, has been named vice provost for undergraduate education. Announcing the appointment, effective July 1.
"Do I speak language or does language speak me?"
The British poet and philosopher of language Denise Riley tackled this question in a campus talk March 30. She took an attentive audience of Cornell graduate students and faculty…