Events this week include: Cornell Cinema movies; Spring Garden sale, bike race, games designs, higher education in Africa, Mayfest music, Cornell Prison Education Program and wildflowers.
Exhibits representing a cross-section of Cornell's physical sciences and engineering expertise will be part of a Washington, D.C., festival aimed at promoting the sciences. (Oct. 13, 2010)
Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation's first Greek collegiate organization established by black students at Cornell in 1906, will prepare for its centennial with a pilgrimage to Cornell on Saturday, Nov. 19.
Jiwoong Park, assistant professor of chemistry, and David Bindel, assistant professor of computer science, have been named 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows for outstanding early career success. (Feb. 22, 2010)
Forty students in Cornell Wind Ensembles performed concerts, led workshops for high school musicians and gave instruments to two schools on a service-learning trip to Washington, D.C.
Six boys from Ithaca's DeWitt Middle School toured the Cornell campus to get a sense of the possibilities that a college education can offer them. (Nov. 14, 2012)
On Site Volunteer Services, a student-run, nationally recognized nonprofit organization, is coordinating more than 20 volunteer projects for that day. The event celebrates National Volunteer Week.
Vicki Caron, associate professor of history at Cornell, has been named the Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, effective Feb. 1, 1998.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings will preside over the university's 128th commencement on Sunday, May 26, at 11 a.m. on Schoellkopf Field. In his first commencement ceremony since assuming the Cornell presidency on July 1, 1995, Rawlings will confer degrees on almost 6,000 eligible graduates.