Cornell Homecoming to be Celebrated Oct. 9-11
September 28th, 2009MOUNT VERNON — Cornell College will celebrate its homecoming Oct. 9-11 by honoring alumni and former professors. Read More…
Hemelt receives APPAM thesis award
September 23rd, 2009MOUNT VERNON – Steven Hemelt, new Cornell College assistant professor of politics, is off to an impressive start in his young academic career after his thesis was named one of the best in the country. Read More…
Music Mondays returns Oct. 12
September 22nd, 2009MOUNT VERNON — The Georgia Guitar Quartet opens Cornell College’s 12th season of Music Mondays Oct. 12 with a diverse program ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the 21st century. Read More…
Student finds piece of history on National Register campus
September 18th, 2009MOUNT VERNON – A geology student unearthed a small piece of history on Cornell College’s National Historic District campus: an 1889 penny lost sometime in the last 120 years. Read More…
What’s your story?: Brittany Atchison ‘10
September 17th, 2009Brittany Atchison is trying to save the world.
Listening to this energetic Randolph High School graduate leaves one with the impression that her goals are awfully lofty for someone who hasn’t quite graduated from college. She talks readily about working with others to make collective changes, about the injustices of position and privilege, about racism and the power of language, and helping the forgotten sections of society. Read More…
Cornellian wins poetry contest; will read poem in Times Square
September 16th, 2009MOUNT VERNON – As one of the four winners of the Bright Lights Big Verse: Poems of Times Square national poetry contest, Ben Miller ’86 will showcase his winning poem “Pipe Birds” in an unusual location: Times Square. Read More…
Lyons named to Corridor Forty Under 40
September 15th, 2009MOUNT VERNON – Monica Lyons, coordinator of the Berry Center for Economics, Business and Public Policy and 2002 graduate of Cornell, was named by the Corridor Business Journal of Iowa City/Cedar Rapids as a Forty Under 40 Award honoree for 2009. Read More…
Denniston visits with Congressional members on global warming
September 14th, 2009MOUNT VERNON – On Thursday, Sept. 10, Cornell College Geology Professor Rhawn Denniston participated in meetings with Iowa members of Congress in Washington, D.C., as part of delegations organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) to discuss the American Clean Energy and Security bill recently passed by the House of Representatives. Read More…
Enns receives APA award
September 8th, 2009MOUNT VERNON – Professor of Psychology Carol Enns was recognized as a Distinguished Leader for Women in Psychology at the August meeting of the American Psychological Association (APA). Read More…
“One Book” to be held Sept. 17 with Diane Ackerman
September 7th, 2009MOUNT VERNON – Cornell College and Cole Library will host Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper’s Wife, on Thursday, Sept. 17, as part of the second year of “One Book, One Campus, One Community.” Read More…
