ITHACA, N.Y. -- College students from several East Coast states will visit Cornell University the weekend of April 26-28 for a conference celebrating Mexican-American art and culture. "A Celebration of Chicana/o Cultural Productions: Utilizing Art as a Tool for Empowerment" is open to the public and will feature a lecture by filmmaker and actor Edward James Olmos on Saturday, April 27, at 8:30 p.m. in Statler Hall Auditorium. Free tickets will be available for Olmos' lecture, with one ticket per Cornell I.D., at the Information and Referral Center in Day Hall on April 25 and April 26 on a first-come, first-served basis.
About 50 students involved with the Cornell University Sustainable Design group are working to research, design and build an affordable sustainable model home in Nicaragua.
The annual BOOM (Bits On Our Minds) exhibition filled the Duffield Hall Atrium with booths, posters and gadgets and drew hundreds of visitors. (March 12, 2007)
'Saturn: Images From the Cassini-Huygens Mission,' an exhibit of 50 dramatic photographs captured by NASA's Cassini orbiter and the European Space Agency's Huygens lander, is on display through March 2009. (May 2, 2008)
Thousands and thousands of documents: the Library of Congress has received 1,705 boxes of the Seth MacFarlane Collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Archive for all of posterity to sift.
Thomas Pepinsky, government, and Eswar Prasad, applied economics and management, have been selected as two of 39 outstanding scholars of Asia to participate in the new National Asia Research Program. (April 14, 2010)
Hollywood, the movie capital -- 'city of the modern gold rush' and 'a sinkhole of depraved venality' -- is a likely target for satire, especially for American playwright David Mamet.
The Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell is hosting 11 faculty fellows as part of its new in-residence program, awarding each a $10,000 grant to pursue their research beginning in September. (June 9, 2008)
The former Cornell faculty member discussed how a systems approach makes for successful engineering as the keynote speaker at the Systems Engineering Forum, April 7-8. (April 7, 2010)