College students from several East Coast states will visit Cornell the weekend of April 26- 28 for a conference celebrating Mexican-American art and culture.
New research finds that while subjects in a nationwide survey identified happiness as a goal, other goals - such as a higher income - may lead them to choose money over happiness. (Sept. 16, 2011)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Outstanding teaching ability was formally recognized at the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award Convocation on April 12, led by Acting Dean Philip E. Lewis in Kennedy Hall Auditorium. The audience of about 250 people included members of the Arts and Sciences Advisory Council as well as honorees and well-wishers from departments and programs across the college. The awards and their recipients, all Ithaca residents, were as follows:
On Sept. 20 Cornell's School of Hotel Administration celebrated 90 years to the day of educating entrepreneurs and leaders in the hospitality industry with a reception in Statler Hall's Park Atrium. (Sept. 21, 2012)
A community program to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC), 318 N. Albany St., on Martin Luther King Day, Monday, Jan. 20, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The program is free and open to all. This ninth annual event will begin with a luncheon, a keynote speech and performances by local choirs. The keynote speaker this year is Larry Shinagawa, associate professor and director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity at Ithaca College. Workshops will follow the luncheon, including children's workshops presented by Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and GIAC, storytelling by Jacqueline Scott and a music workshop by Tom Sieling. In addition, there will be a joint Elder-Youth Speakout this year and a workshop by Leslie Schultz and Tammy Baker, titled "Alternatives to Violence." The program will conclude with dessert and additional performances by local choirs. (January 13, 2003)
A Cornell study is turning 50 years of language-related science on its head, with implications in fields from evolutionary history to computer science and psycholinguistics. (Sept. 20, 2012)
Theoretical physicists at Cornell may have found a new way to explain the formation of novae. If their theory is correct, it would represent a big step forward for astrophysics. (Sept. 20, 2012)
The opening of the office will be marked by a nanomedicine symposium, Sept. 24 from 2 to 5:30 p.m. at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. (Sept. 11, 2008)