At the first annual Technology, Food and Agricultural Career Day on March 22, almost 200 high school students learned about the growing career opportunities in agriculture.
Open to all, program houses can enhance students' academic learning, offer unique resources, activities and community service opportunities, and provide a sense of belonging within the giant Cornell community. (May 2, 2007)
Kate Duch, ILR '09, has been elected student trustee, the Trustee Nominating Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees announced April 30. (May 2, 2007)
Hector Abruna, Stephen Emlen, Isabel Hull, Jon Kleinberg and Stephen Pope are among 203 new fellows elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2007. (May 2, 2007)
A Cornell researcher has found that people who had been exposed to prenatal toxins and develop later-life diseases have in common an imbalanced immune system and hyperinflammatory responses. (May 2, 2007)
Although tenure serves several important functions, it does not confer academic freedom as much as it was intended, especially among associate professors, according to a new Cornell study. (May 2, 2007)
The English language is being reclaimed and transformed in places that were once British colonies in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, according to speakers at a conference, April 27-28. (May 2, 2007)
American society erroneously views mourning as an embarrassment or a disease in its own right and trivializes grief, said visiting professor Sandra Gilbert in an April 27 talk. (May 2, 2007)
As a nation we simply don't care enough about science education, said Harold Varmus, president and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute in New York City, speaking on campus April 30. (May 1, 2007)
A student designer and fiber scientists team up to make a dress that prevents colds and a jacket that destroys noxious gases. The garments were featured at the April 21 Cornell Design League fashion show. (May 1, 2007)
Adam Siepel, assistant professor of biological statistics and computational biology, has been named one of five awardees for Microsoft Research's 2007 New Faculty Fellowship Program. (May 1, 2007)
