Bridging the GapThis summer saw several regional firsts for Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q). The medical college, in Education City, Doha, initiated a new training program in Qatar for medical interpreters as an…
Three lifelong residents of New Orleans delivered a clear reminder to "stay active" during a panel discussion, "Katrina: One Year Later," held Aug 31 at Cornell. They also urged that concerted efforts be made to bring back more…
A Cornell professor and a graduate student each walked away with major awards at the annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), held Aug. 5 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.Maureen Hanson, the…
Cornell has been named one of the "Best Employers for Workers over 50" for the second consecutive year by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).The association honors 50 employers in the United States each year for…
Joe Wilensky/Cornell ChronicleMembers of the University Carpenter Shop move the Joseph N. Pew sundial off the Engineering Quad to prepare it for minor repairs.The Joseph N. Pew sundial, which normally occupies a corner of the…
Cornell has a tradition of celebrating inaugurations with original ice cream flavors that express the tastes and even philosophies of its newly minted president.Now there's Banana-Berry Skorton, a jazzy chocolate-based premium…
George P. Hess, Cornell professor of biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, has been named a 2007 Biophysical Society fellow in recognition of his long and distinguished career in the application of biophysics to an…
Experimental evidence provided by a Cornell researcher and colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., supports a long-held theory of how and where proteins fold to create their characteristic shapes and…
Investing more money in salaries of employees who have contact with customers pays off in greater profitability for hotels, concludes a study of 563 hotels in the United States conducted by three professors in Cornell's School of…
"Why do all the black students live in Ujamaa?""My roommate is a queer." … "Yeah, I know -- he's my boyfriend.""The guy wanted $50 for this jacket, but I jewed him down.""Freaking Asians, always wrecking the curve in my math…
David Skorton describes the humanities as the soul of the university. So it is fitting that a new collection of poems, "Like a Fragile Index of the World," celebrates his inauguration through the work of 38 Cornell poets, past…
Two Cornell students have received 2006 awards from the Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research program, Cornell's Center for the Environment announced. They are: Jason Andras, a doctoral student in ecology and…
