With flu kits and meals delivered to their rooms and daily check-ins via e-mail and phone, Cornell students ill with the flu are getting support from staff and fellow students. (Sept. 12, 2009)
Cornell Hillel students traveled to Ukraine June 15 for a nine-day service trip to serve elderly and disabled Jews, many of whom live in poverty. (July 24, 2008)
Nearly 800 Cornellians attended the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference in Boston Jan. 18-20, the fourth annual CALC and the first in Boston, an area home to more than 11,000 Cornell alumni.
On Sept. 4, President David Skorton and Provost Kent Fuchs hosted the first of five forums to discuss with faculty, staff and students the creation of Cornell's strategic plan.
Events on campus this week include free concerts and a Thai festival in Willard Straight Hall, a roundtable on genocide in Rwanda, a sustainability research panel and a talk on math and magic.
Events on campus this week include a concert with soprano Dawn Upshaw, a cross-campus panel on community engagement, student bands on North Campus and Locally Grown Dance at the Schwartz Center. (April 26, 2012)
Cornell University will host the "2000 Greenhouse Management Conference: Grow Your Greenhouse" conference Nov. 9 and 10 at the Holiday Inn, Batavia, N.Y. The conference is being held in conjunction with the Country Folks Grower Trade Show and Garden Plant Education Day. The conference is for anyone interested in starting or expanding a greenhouse business or for those involved in the horticultural industry, either as managers or as service providers, and for horticultural educators.
Events on campus this week include the Cornell Jazz Festival with bassist Rufus Reid, scientists and artists inspired by light, love in many languages in 'Long Ago in May,' and composer Matti Bye. (April 19, 2012)
Kent Kleinman, a professor and department chair at Parsons The New School for Design, has been selected as the new Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He will begin his five-year term Sept. 1. (June 26, 2008)
President Elizabeth Garrett sat down with Cornell Chronicle editors last month to share her thoughts on her inauguration and priorities for the coming year. Garrett will be installed as the university's 13th president Friday, Sept. 18.