The Cornell University Home Study Program is changing its name to the Cornell University Food Industry Management Distance Education Program, said George S. Hayward, director of the program.
Tzvetan Todorov, an internationally renowned writer and director of research at the Centre National de Recherches in Paris, will visit Cornell on March 24-28 as a Clark Fellow.
Neil Gershenfeld, director of the Physics and Media Group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab and co-director of the Things That Think research consortium, will speak on "Things That Think" at noon, Oct 20. The event is the first in a new distinguished lecturer series sponsored by the Cornell Faculty of Computing and Information.
The defamation lawsuit filed against Cornell labor researcher Kate Bronfenbrenner by Beverly Enterprises Inc., one of the nation's largest nursing home operators, has been dismissed.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings will preside over the university's 128th commencement on Sunday, May 26, at Schoellkopf Stadium at 11 a.m. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will present an address at Senior Convocation.
Events this week include Indian classical and jazz concerts, the fifth annual Insectapalooza, the first Economics Art Gallery exhibition, and lectures on public school reform and civil liberties. (Oct. 1, 2009)
The text of remarks by Walter LaFeber, the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of American History, on Sept. 14, 2011, the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, at Cornell University.
Two Cornell University graduate students have received generous graduate fellowships from the Semiconductor Research Corp., the microchip industry's long-term research consortium.
We all know of great scholars, said President Hunter Rawlings at the Beacon Theatre on Manhattan's Upper West Side. And we all know of great teachers. But to find in one person, Walter LaFeber, the greatest of scholars and of teachers, he continued -- that is a remarkable thing.
An award-winning playwright, a psychologist interested in memory who helped found the discipline of cognitive psychology and an authority on elephant and whale communication are among the guest speakers in a Monday afternoon lecture series on memory and creativity to be offered this spring at Cornell.