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Essentials:History of the Cornell University Sigma Phi society
A video that explores the history of Cornell University's Sigma Phi society and the restoration of its 75-year-old West Campus home at 1 Forest Park Lane, which sits on part of Ezra CornellŐs original homestead. (4:53)
Campus Life:New students help Ithaca community through POST service program
Every August, dozens of first-year students show up almost a week before orientation to fan out into the Ithaca community for a day of service. These Pre-Orientation Service Trips (POST) are just part of the mission and programming of Cornell's Public Service Center, which every year sends hundreds of students into the community to volunteer and ties service learning to classroom experience. (01:55)
Cornell in NYC:Sy Katz '31 parade
Flanked by cheerleaders, baton-twirlers and a sea of about 500 red-clad alumni, the Big Red Marching Band makes its biennial post-Columbia football game pilgrimage down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in November 2006. (16:36)
Poem in Your Pocket Day 2007
An homage to Harry Houdini. A collection of haiku written from the perspective of zombies. These were just some of the poems read by six M.F.A. students from the English department's Creative Writing Program at the fifth annual "Poem in Your Pocket Day" in Manhattan's Bryant Park. (27:04)
Celebrating Poem in Your Pocket Day 2008
In honor of April's National Poetry Month, New York City hosted the sixth annual Poem in Your Pocket (PIYP) Day on April 17, 2008. Cornell partnered with the NYC Department of Education, the Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mayor's Office and the Bryant Park Corporation. (19:10)
Green Design: From solar decathlon to business creation
Members of the Cornell University Solar Decathlon (CUSD) team, which consists of nearly 200 undergrad and graduate students from across the university, presented the design, key systems and sustainability features of their 2009 entry on Jan. 12, 2009 in the AAP Center in New York City in an event sponsored by Cornell Entrepreneur Network (CEN) NY and the College of Architecture, Art & Planning, the College of Engineering, the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. (1:37:18)
HIV/AIDS: Where are we?
To address such pressing health challenges in the world as HIV/AIDS and malnutrition in developing nations, Cornell has established an innovative Global Health Program, a collaborative effort between Cornell's Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) in New York City. Funded by the National Institutes of Health and Cornell, the program will be the home to academic, research, internship and outreach collaborations related to global health issues across the two campuses. In this video, Dr. Roy Gulick (Cornell PI of the Columbia-Cornell AIDS Clinical Trials Unit and Vice Chair, HIV Treatment Strategies Research Agenda Committee of the NIH-sponsored AIDS Clinical Trials Group) presents the Global Health Lecture Series' first lecture, "HIV/AIDS 2007 -- Where Are We?" (1:01:30)