Cornell has received a $1.4 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for postdoctoral fellowships and seminars in the humanities and related social sciences. The grant, for use over approximately five years, will help fuel ongoing academic initiatives in the humanities at Cornell.
Most busloads of visitors to Cornell are schoolchildren on field trips, but on May 8, four buses delivered 55 senior citizens from the Greater Ithaca Activities Center to the Carl L. Becker House. (May 11, 2007)
How can the Cornell campus do more when it comes to energy efficiency, recycling, reducing pollution, preserving green areas and other efforts that promote sustainability?
A new Cornell University Council on Hazing Prevention will take a comprehensive, campuswide approach to prevent and respond to hazing that involves ongoing coordination and leadership by staff, students, faculty and alumni.
The renovated third floor of East Sibley Hall is now home to architecture faculty offices, 60 studio desks for architecture students and space for collaboration.
Larry Salameno '66, J.D. '69, was inspired to give to the Far Above campaign because he was 'intrigued by the fact that Cornell is working to create a community' in the West Campus House System. (May 1, 2008)
A study of an early retirement incentive given to teachers in Illinois in the 1990s shows that although early retirement incentives lead to the replacement of experienced educators with novice teachers, they do not result in reduced student test scores.
In the study, 20 percent of women and 9 percent of men identified themselves as 'mostly heterosexual,' a finding that supports using a more nuanced 5-point scale for depicting sexual orientation.
New and transfer students will read Amara Lakhous’ multicultural social satire “Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio” this summer, as part of the New Student Reading Project.