Events on campus this week include the Mayfest chamber music festival; a reading by graduating MFA writers; Museum Day at the Johnson Museum of Art; and a lecture on the art of birdsong.
Chief Investment Officer Kenneth Miranda shares his plan for securing and increasing the endowment to provide resources to advance Cornell’s educational mission for faculty, students and future scholars.
The committee for the 2002 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is calling for proposals from local organizations and agencies. Proposals are due by April 12.
Jaffa Panken, a senior history major from Baltimore, Md., was one of 85 students nationwide to receive the 2005 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Stocking Hall will get a new four-story addition and a general facelift, with construction beginning next September, giving the Department of Food Science and the landmark Cornell Dairy Bar new homes. (Sept. 18, 2009)
The university is retiring its 'postoffice' e-mail system and moving students to Google Apps Education Edition, and faculty and staff to Microsoft Exchange. (Sept. 16, 2009)
Professor Emeritus Walter LaFeber pondered the true role of professors while reflecting on the late Carl Becker's (1873-1945) writings on the same topic at an Oct. 13 talk to students. (Oct. 18, 2010)
Sara Furguson '10, who suffered a high-level spinal cord injury at age 3, says Cornell has done a 'fantastic job' in accommodating her needs. (April 7, 2010)