NASA's Contour space mission and Cornell are challenging students and their teachers in the United States to participate in the spacecraft's forthcoming exploration of comets.
The Vagina Monologues , Eve Ensler's Obie award-winning play that premiered in 1996 and addresses issues of violence against women, will be read at Cornell University on Valentine's Day.
If Richard Schechner were a highway hazard sign, the warning might read 'Caution: Mind Wide Open.' On stage, as in life it seems, there is no 'right way,' only what works and what doesn't - and even that can be fleeting.
When science students at Ithaca High School wondered if chemicals proposed for de-icing snow-covered hills in their hometown really were environmentally safer than road salt, they didn't take the word of manufacturers and government officials but began testing the chemicals themselves.
It will be a bumpy ride, but it's all downhill for Hannah Hardaway and Travis Mayer, two students from Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Science, who both have earned coveted spots in moguls on the U.S. Olympic ski team.
Cornell University officials responded today (Jan. 29) to an article on a website originating in Los Angeles that reported that Mexican-American students at Cornell are "under siege." The article describes two incidents that occurred on campus Jan. 26 and 27. The first incident was described in an e-mail written by a female undergraduate student of Mexican descent. In the e-mail, which she distributed to a number of friends, she said that she and another student were victims of verbal harassment and menacing. She said that on Jan. 26 she was walking with the other student shortly after 9:30 p.m. on East Avenue between Tower Road and the Thurston Avenue bridge when a group of men in a pickup truck began to follow them and yell ethnic slurs. The student reported that at one point several men chased her and her friend. They were able to elude the pursuers, she said. (January 29, 2002)
Cornell University Police are investigating a report by an undergraduate student that she and another student were victims of a hate crime involving verbal harassment and menacing that occurred Saturday, Jan. 26 on campus. A female undergraduate student reported to campus police Jan. 28 that on Jan. 26 she was walking with the other student shortly after 9:30 p.m. on East Avenue between Tower Road and the Thurston Avenue bridge when a group of men in a pickup truck began to follow them and yell racial slurs against Latinos/Hispanics. The student reported that two men carrying planks or bats chased her and her friend when they reached Reservoir Drive between Baker Lab and Rockefeller Hall. They ran to the footbridge at the west end of Beebe Lake and the chase ended, she said. The students were physically unharmed. (January 29, 2002)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- On Super Bowl Sunday this Feb. 3, Douglas Stayman's students at Cornell University will be taking careful notes -- not on whether Drew Bledsoe is starting quarterback for the Patriots or how many yards Marshall Faulk is racking up for the Rams, but on who is advertising this year and why. Stayman, an expert on advertising patterns, says that this year the big news is a shift in the kinds of companies willing to spend big bucks on a Super Bowl ad. "While it's no surprise that we're seeing changes, the surprise is how large the shift is," he says. Two years ago more than 20 e-businesses bought ads, while this year only three have signed up, two of them online job search firms. Instead, says Stayman, "most of the advertisers this year are more traditional companies, like AT&T, Anheuser-Busch, Pepsi and film companies, that have longstanding reasons to spend large sums to launch or promote a product on Super Bowl." The change reflects not only such occurrences as the burst dot-com bubble but also the events of September 11, the war on terrorism and the recession, he says. (January 29, 2002)
Two free public events will mark the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at Cornell University in February. On Tuesday, Feb. 5, at 5 p.m. in Sage Chapel, the speaker will be the Rev. Amos Cleophilus Brown Sr., the pastor of San Francisco's Third Baptist Church since 1976. On Wednesday, Feb 6, at noon, Brown will participate in a panel discussion titled "African American Political Empowerment: Preparing for 2004" in the Founders Room of Anabel Taylor Hall on campus. The Rev. Kenneth Clarke, director of Cornell United Religious Work (CURW), will serve as moderator. Other panelists will include: James Turner, Cornell professor of Africana studies, and Dorothy Cotton, who was education director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference under King. (January 29, 2002)
If you want to manage your mint plants, tend your tomatoes, know why you should mow your grass high or how to cultivate cabbage correctly, then register for the first annual Cornell Gardening Day, March 23, from 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., at DeWitt Middle School, Ithaca. The event is sponsored by the Cornell University's Department of Horticulture, Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) of Tompkins County and Cornell Plantations. The day-long program will feature more than 30 lectures and workshops, plus a resource fair and free soil pH testing. Classes will be taught by faculty at Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, as well as by staff from Cornell Plantations and CCE educators, staff and master gardeners. Topics will include landscaping with perennials, shrubs and bulbs; growing fruits and vegetables; garden photography; water gardens; fertilizers; wildlife damage control; mulches; composting; soils and soil creatures; propagation; and pest management. (January 29, 2002)
Learn from the pros about how to turn business ideas into plans that attract investors, or, if you're an aspiring venture capitalist, how to spot good investments, even in a recession. A stellar lineup of successful entrepreneurs and principal investors will share their insights Feb. 8 in Sage Hall on Cornell University's campus. The 2nd Annual Cornell Entrepreneurship and Principal Investing Symposium (EPIS) is organized by students at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management who are aspiring entrepreneurs and principal investors. (January 29, 2002)