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National Health Care Debate Reaches Goldwin Smith
November 18th, 2009President Barack Obama has made health care a top priority in his short tenure. The approval of his health bill by the House of Representatives on Nov. 7 has only intensified the debate that has swept the country concerning how the government should reform the current health care system. Read More
University Selects New V.P. For Budget and Planning
November 17th, 2009The Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Elmira Mangum as Cornell’s vice president for budget and planning on Wednesday. Read More
GPSA Passes New Budget, But Tables Resolution for Funding Parity With S.A.
November 17th, 2009Correction Appended Although the crowd was somewhat quieter — there were no boo’s of displeasure or sign-waving supporters — the discussion of byline funding allocations for Cornell Cinema and the Slope Day Programming Board at yesterday’s Graduate and Professional Student Assembly meeting was just as heated as the Student Assembly’s recent discussion of the same matters. Read More
Faculty Highlight Effective Sustainability Initiatives on Campus
November 17th, 2009Caught in the ever-looming presence of global warming, audience members last night in Phillips Hall were treated to a presentation on successful sustainability projects in the Ithaca community. Read More
Violent History Belies Ithaca’s Peaceful Aura
November 17th, 2009One morning in 1916, workers were excavating the foundation for a new auto shop on State Street. In addition to rocks and dirt, their plow hit something a bit unexpected. As they continued digging and removing mud and debris from the strange objects, they became horrified. It was a complete skeleton and two additional skulls. Read More
Student Diversity Stems Back to 1870s With First Japanese Student
November 17th, 2009More than desiring a diverse student body of Americans, Ezra Cornell envisioned a university comprised of foreign students studying alongside Americans. Read More
Former Prof Relates Experiences During Kristallnacht
November 17th, 2009Retired Prof. Leo Gruenfeld, industrial and labor relations and a Holocaust survivor, was 11 years old and living in Berlin on Nov. 9, 1938 when Kristallnacht, known as the Night of Broken Glass, began. Read More
Business Leaders Converge At C.U. for Net Impact 2009
November 16th, 2009Nearly 2,500 students, educators and business leaders from around the world gathered at Cornell this weekend for the 17th annual Net Impact Conference, “Advancing Sustainable Global Enterprise: Changemakers, Innovators, and Problem Solvers.” Read More
CALS Task Force Calls For Merger of Depts.
November 16th, 2009This is the first article in a series that examines the final reports released by the task forces in Cornell’s Strategic Planning process. The final report for the task force of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences was released just 10 days ago, but it has already turned heads for the bold changes it advocates. Read More
Cornell Store Sells Nabokov’s Draft Prior to Global Release
November 16th, 2009Since Vladimir Nabokov’s death in 1977, a Swiss bank vault has guarded 138 pencil-written note cards that the writer of Lolita fame instructed to destroy. Thirty years later, copies of these cards, the unfinished draft of Nabokov’s last novel The Original of Laura, will be available today at the Cornell Store, one day prior to the global release date. Read More