Film editor Thelma Schoonmaker '61 will present highlights from her work, including several features and documentaries directed by Martin Scorsese, at Cornell Cinema's Willard Straight Theatre on Saturday, Nov. 19.
Architecture critic Robert Campbell lectured Sept. 12 in honor of Roger Trancik's retirement after 38 years as a Cornell professor of city and regional planning and landscape architecture. (Sept. 23, 2008)
The United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917. Scarcely a week later, 575 Cornell male undergraduates registered for military service, the university began a flight ground school soon after and women played lead roles in the war effort.
Cornell and the Technion have received numerous expressions of support from entrepreneurs and academics in their partnership bid for the New York City Tech Campus. The proposal is due Oct. 28.
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.
At 10 a.m. Friday, March 13, 1998, Cornell University Provost Don Randel was scheduled to ascend to the top of the library tower to take a sample of the famous pumpkin. At 9:18 a.m. workmen testing the crane accidentally bumped the pumpkin and knocked it off the spire.
Vice President for Human Resources Mary Opperman does not want the business of retirement to overshadow the contributions of staff members who are retiring, and the value of those who remain. (April 16, 2009)
In her first short-story collection, poet and Cornell professor of English Alice Fulton finds inspiration in four generations of women in her upstate family. (Sept. 5, 2008)
Professor Ross Brann expresses disappointment with the lack of engagement new students showed in discussing 'Lincoln at Gettysburg' and with faculty participation in helping students choose courses. (Sept. 4, 2008)
The connections of polymer science to biology will be examined when a major academic research conference with industrial participation, the 14th annual Polymer Outreach Program (POP) symposium.