Albert Einstein played the violin. Werner Heisenberg was a distinguished pianist. Richard Feynman played ... well, the bongos. But you get the idea.Music and physics seem like disciplines on the opposite ends of a spectrum. One,…
The Cornell Higher Education Research Institute is hosting its first higher education policy conference Oct. 15 and 16 on campus. All sessions are in the ILR Conference Center, rooms 105 and 120, and are open to the Cornell community.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded nearly $600,000 to Arecibo Observatory and the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo to establish a three-year program to provide Hispanic students on the island with experience in conducting scientific research.
Native Americas journal, the award-winning publication of Akwe:kon Press at Cornell's American Indian Program, has been awarded a $25,000 grant by the Educational Foundation of America.
Concerns and criticisms about proposed changes to the Campus Code of Conduct and Cornell's judicial system were voiced at a Feb. 5 public forum. (Feb. 7, 2007)
Events on campus this week include playwright Lauren Feldman '01 at the Schwartz Center, former Black Panther Charlotte O'Neal, talks on poetry and Vietnam, and the 36th Festival of Black Gospel.
The Vietnam Moving Wall will be displayed on the Agriculture Quad at Cornell University from Tuesday, May 1, through Saturday morning, May 5. The public is invited to opening ceremonies for the Moving Wall on May 1 at 5:30 p.m. on the Ag Quad.
Lee Teng-hui, former president of Taiwan, is planning to travel to Cornell, where he earned his Ph.D. in agricultural economics in 1968, on a personal visit in early May to see his granddaughter, a Cornell student, and to meet with students and faculty at his alma mater. Lee's visit to Cornell is planned for May 2-4. No public speeches or events are anticipated.
Peter H. Raven, the internationally known biologist who heads St. Louis' Missouri Botanical Garden, has been named as the 2004 Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecturer at Cornell.
In such sports as basketball and baseball, U.S. national teams are the perennial "overdogs," invariably liked by Americans and hated by the rest of the world. But in soccer, the world's most popular spectator sport, the U.S. Men…