President Martha E. Pollack recently spoke to the Chronicle about how universities innovate, the critical importance of free speech and academic expression on campus, and what has surprised her most about Cornell so far.
Cornell students, led by the staff of the Public Service Center, celebrated National Volunteer Week, April 21-27. The highlights of the week included formal presentation of two service awards.
Marc Bruno '93, vice president of Aramark's Olympic Catering Project, will lead a staff of nearly 7,000 to serve 3.5 million meals during the 2008 summer games in Beijing. (Aug. 7, 2008)
Government professor Christopher Anderson, a former semi-pro soccer player, has launched a statistically based soccer blog. He predicts Brazil will take the cup in South Africa this summer. (June 9, 2010)
Nov. 6 marked the sixth annual Cornell trip to the United Nations; 79 Cornellians spent the day touring the organization and meeting U.N. experts, who spoke on topics the students requested. (Nov. 11, 2009)
Shawhin Roudbari, a graduate student in Cornell University's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is working to help rural communities in South Africa hold on to more of their precious resource of water, which appears only briefly in late summer, leaving dry farmland when winter returns. He is one of six EWF-USA volunteers who are using their engineering skills to make a difference overseas this summer. He is spending three months designing and building rainwater storage tanks and installing them in eight villages, supported by a partnership of the International Water Management Institute, a research organization headquartered in Sri Lanka, and Engineers Without Frontiers USA (EWF-USA), a two-year-old national nonprofit group based at Cornell and supported by the university. (August 19, 2003)
Try this: Practice viewing the world as a child, seeing things as they might be, exploring your creative potential. For example, find the letters of the alphabet in everyday objects, such as a cloud that forms a C.
Children, especially low-income and minority children, are hurt by the effects of chaos at home, triggered by divorce, remarriage and the fast pace of modern life, said researchers at a videoconference. (July 28, 2008)
Eighty-five hundred years after someone in ancient Anatolia drilled holes in the wings of a crane -- evidently to make a bird costume for a ritual dance -- then hid one wing in a narrow space between mudbrick houses at Çatalhöyük in what today is Turkey.