Most people are better judges of other people's moral character than they are of their own. Experiments conducted at Cornell and reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found many people making an error in self-assessment.
Cornell Hillel's Board of Trustees has announced that Barbara Friedman '59 will be the first recipient of the Tanner Prize for her significant contributions to the Jewish people and to Cornell University. The prize will be given to Friedman at an honorary luncheon April 21 at the Cornell Club in New York City.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The committee for the 1996 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is inviting proposals from community organizations and agencies. Applications are due by April 19, 1996. Established at Cornell University in 1994 through a grant of $100,000 by the Tompkins County Trust Co., the award is named for the bank's former board of directors chairman, who is the W.I. Myers Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Finance at Cornell.
The Cornell Public Service Center has announced the selection of two fellows for the third annual Cornell Civic Leaders Fellowship Program to work on projects that address community-identified needs. The Cornell Civic Leaders Fellowship Program enables outstanding community leaders involved in economic and community development efforts to join the Cornell community of scholars as both learners and teachers for an academic year. It was established to help expand and improve university-community collaborations. (July 29, 2003)
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.
Cornell's Department of Food Science has selected Upstate Farms of Rochester as producer of the highest quality milk in New York state. The annual selection was announced today (Aug. 28) at the New York State Fair's Dairy Day. The analytical tests are run at Cornell.
A "Chordash-built home" is synonymous to many Ithacans as a home of quality. Chordash Builders, which constructed and remodeled numerous homes in Ithaca from the 1950s to the early 1970s, was owned by Michael A. Chordash and his wife.
Jessica Govea Thorbourne, a labor educator with Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations in New York City and a founding organizer of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers (UFW) Union, died Jan. 23, 2005.
Marshall Sahlins, the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, will deliver a lecture titled "Sentimental Pessimism and Ethnographic Experience: Why Culture is Not a Disappearing Object" at Cornell University Friday, Nov. 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall.
Imagine the freshest food prepared to order right in front of you as you converse with the chef about your sauce preferences. A five-star restaurant in New York, San Francisco or Hong Kong? Close. But wait. Imagine, further, your choice of five or six such restaurants, five or six kinds of meals, all within one bright, light, wood, brick, slate-and-ceramic contemporary space.