Education officials don't usually have to make life-or-death decisions on the job. But for Enver Halilovic, who was responsible for education in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the war there, moral questions loomed over his every mandate.
Events this week include a conversation with athletes-turned-politicians Bill Bradley and Ken Dryden '70, Alloy Orchestra at Cornell Cinema, Jay Walker '77 on innovation, and a forum on poverty policy. (Sept. 3, 2009)
The Cornell professors are teaching a course on developing outreach programs to give children and teens in a less-privileged area of the Ithaca community a taste of what Cornell might offer them in the future. (April 11, 2007)
Faculty, staff and students at Cornell University now have full, free and around-the-clock access to more than 400 health and nutrition data sets from the National Center for Health Statistics.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Clifton R. Wharton Jr., a former deputy secretary of state, chancellor of the State University of New York system and chairman of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and the College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), will give the Messenger Lecture at Cornell University on Thursday, April 18, at 4:30 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall. The title of the free and open lecture is "Presidential Politics and Foreign Policy: Diminishing America's Global Stature."
College women who were sexually abused before age 18 tend to have less secure and trusting relationships with their partners and lower levels of interpersonal functioning and social adjustment than college women who were not abused, according to a study.
Ranking as one of the world's greatest scientific and social achievements, the Green Revolution saved millions from starvation in the 1960s and 70s. Now, faced with increasing population growth, environmental degradation and problems of hunger, Cornell University scientists believe the future is bleak.
Cornell's Class of 1971 was witness to an especially tumultuous era of campus unrest, peaking with the takeover of Willard Straight Hall by black student activists on April 19, 1969.
During a Reunion Weekend forum, June 9 in…
Local nonprofits and small businesses in Ithaca and surrounding counties and the Cornell University community are the immediate beneficiaries of this year's Park Service Leadership projects. MBA students selected as Park fellows at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management have been working on the service projects for the past two years. Their aim: to leave something of lasting value in the community, learn leadership skills in the process and make community service a lifelong habit. (May 14, 2003)
Cornell Law School Professor Larry Palmer, a nationally renowned expert on health policy and law, will join the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law in Louisville, Ky., in January 2003.