The city of Ithaca has reopened the Thurston Avenue Bridge to vehicular traffic in the northbound direction only, with pedestrians allowed only on the east-side sidewalk of the bridge. Vehicles and pedestrians will be separated…
Giving a 1 percent raise boosts employee job performance by roughly 2 percent, but offering that same money in the form of a bonus that is strongly linked to a job well done can improve job performance by almost 20 percent, finds…
NEW YORK -- Only a parade down one of Manhattan's busiest thoroughfares could match the love that Seymour "Sy" Katz '31 felt for Cornell.
So on a cool Nov. 11 evening, in keeping with the tradition Katz started more than three…
Peace-building in Africa and the Middle East, extreme poverty and the need for more conflict resolution may be the business of the diplomats at the United Nations, but on Nov. 3, they also were the concerns of 110 members of the…
Punk, goth, hippie, neohippie, hip hop and hipster are just a few types of street fashion that Cornell researchers are taking seriously. A new exhibit, "Street Fashion and Youth Subculture: An Ethnographic Costume Exhibition,"…
Divided they stand. To catch the eye -- and interest -- of Cornell passersby on the Arts Quad, two students in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) have designed and installed an artwork called BORDER::PASSAGE, a…
Former Cornell President Hunter Rawlings and Cornell Trustee Elizabeth D. Moore '75 have been named to the transition team of New York State Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer.Spitzer named his six-member transition team at his first…
"The weather," says Todd Miner, "is not what we had planned."He's not kidding. Rain? Snow? Sleet? Wind? Well, they don't call it a challenge course for nothing.Miner is executive director of Cornell Outdoor Education, whose…
David B. Williams, who served as the first director of Cornell's International Students Office (now the International Students and Scholars Office -- ISSO) for more than 30 years, died in June in Asheville, N.C. He was 84…
Thought the Department of German Studies was dedicated to the exclusive study of the language, literature and culture of Germany? Or that English literature was confined to poetry and prose of the British Isles?Not anymore. As…
Why has tuition outpaced the Consumer Price Index? The simple answer is that Cornell offers a premium product (an education at an elite institution) in an extremely competitive market, and to stay ahead of the pack, the university must keep getting the best students, faculty and facilities -- and the best rankings. And that costs a lot of money.
