Some 4,000 Cornellians and friends returned to campus, Sept. 26-28, for Homecoming Weekend, which saw the Big Red football team defeat the Yale Bulldogs, 17-14. (Sept. 30, 2008)
For one day only, April 23, Cornell Library is putting all four of its 17th-century folio editions of William Shakespeare's collected plays on display to celebrate the Bard's 450th birthday.
Events on campus include a Cornell Cinema benefit and dance party, a rare 17th-century opera, young ornithologists sharing their research and a University Lecture by Islam scholar Sherman Jackson.
The distinguished teaching career of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie will be honored this month with a tribute, simply called "Readings for Alison Lurie." The event, sponsored by Cornell's Department of English and Program of Creative Writing.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $1.8 million to Main Street Science, the education program of Cornell University's Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC), the Sciencenter in Ithaca and Painted Universe, a design/fabrication firm in Lansing, N.Y., to explain a tiny world to young minds. The funding will enable the group to design and fabricate a 3,500-square-foot exhibition, "Too Small to See," that will take museum visitors on a journey through nanoscale science and engineering. Children and adults will be immersed in experiences, images and models representing the structures and processes of nano dimensions, no more than a millionth of a millimeter. (August 11, 2004)
Cornell Lunatic founder Joey Green '80 returned to campus April 1 to mark the humor magazine's 30th anniversary and to launch the book he edited, 'Lunacy: The Best of the Cornell Lunatic.' (April 3, 2008)
'Golfing on the Roof of the World: In Pursuit of Gross National Happiness' is alumnus Rick Lipsey's account of living and working in Bhutan in 2002 as a golf instructor. (May 30, 2007)
Ten artists from this year's reunion classes will exhibit their work at the second annual Cornell University alumni art exhibition June 3 through 14 in the John Hartell Gallery in Sibley Hall.
On Aug. 30, Peter J. Katzenstein, professor of international studies at Cornell, became president of the American Political Science Association. (Sept. 24, 2008)