Faculty and visiting scholars will consider the postmodern in the arts and literature and in related scholarship in the disciplines at the Society for the Humanities' conference, April 13-14. (April 11, 2007)
Professor Ann Lemley received the honor 'for outstanding contributions in the endeavors of the division and in the science of agrochemistry.' (April 11, 2007)
Although business was looking up, Ezra Cornell still felt financially insecure during this period. His interest in farm machinery led to his investment in the Albany Agricultural Works and the Steam Agricultural Co. (April 11, 2007)
Exponential population growth combined with finite resources is the fundamental source of the planet's energy and climate problems, says Richard Allmendinger, Cornell professor of earth and atmospheric sciences. (April 4, 2007)
Because this is the first time that a dominant mutation that leads specifically to infertility in a mammal has been discovered, the researchers say they can now look for similar mutations in the DNA of infertile men. (April 10, 2007)
Soledad O'Brien, television journalist and former anchor for CNN, will give the Senior Convocation address during Cornell's 139th Commencement Weekend, May 26-27. (April 10, 2007)
Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas was true to form when she spoke at Cornell April 9 -- she held nothing back in questioning President Bush's policies and the war on Iraq. (April 10, 2007)
People who saw how much they had already eaten -- e.g., leftover chicken-wing bones -- ate 27 percent less than people who had no such environmental cues, finds a study by Cornell's Brian Wansink. (April 9, 2007)
'Going Global, Going Vernacular' will bring together scholars from India, Africa and the United States, April 27-28, to look at how the English language is being reclaimed and transformed. (April 9, 2007)
The 'Sisters on the Frontline: Organizing Women, Building Power' conference drew more than 200 women labor organizers for one of the first national events of its kind, March 30-April 1 in New York City. (April 9, 2007)
The Cornell Institute for the Social Sciences is sponsoring an 'Incarceration and Fatherhood Workshop,' Friday, April 13, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in 290 Myron Taylor Hall. (April 9, 2007)
