Cornell University students taking part in an international competition to build a state-of-the-art solar-powered house will hold an Earth Day Celebration in the Sage Hall atrium, April 22, from 6 to 8 p.m. The celebration is free and open to the public. Booths and posters will provide a sneak preview of the Cornell entry in the fall 2005 competition, the National Solar Decathlon. During the Earth Day event, Ithaca Mayor Carolyn Peterson and New York State Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton (D-125th) will comment on environmental policies. (April 13, 2004)
Leonie Brinkema, Cornell J.D. '76, recently made headlines as the judge in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, who on May 4 was convicted of being an accomplice in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and…
Forget fashion forecasts - the Class of 2009 knows its color of choice for the next four years. As they donned their white coats Aug. 24, they officially assumed the mantle of the medical student.
A community program to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center, 318 N. Albany St., on Monday, Jan. 20, from 11:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Harvey Klein, the William S. Paley Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and physician to recent Cornell presidents, offered a prescription to the Cornell Presidential Search Subcommittee on Sept. 7.
Alan G. Merten, the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of Cornell's S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, has been named president of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. He will take office July 1. Merten, who also holds an appointment as professor of information systems, has served as dean of the Johnson School since 1989.
Betty Friedan's life and Cornell connection celebrated. The occasion for these tributes was the celebration of Friedan's life, April 24 at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). Sponsored by the Provost's Office, the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) program and the ILR School.
NEW YORK -- Weill Cornell Medical College, together with The Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, will receive $50 million over three years from The Starr Foundation to develop new resources and expertise in stem cell research, helping to position the three institutions' scientists as leaders in this competitive new field.