Back in the early 1970s, Dava Sobel was a young writer known around Cornell for her interest in science -- and for the signature pink bicycle she rode between interviews and the Cornell Chronicle office. Now, she's a best-selling…
As gasoline prices continue to climb, the good news for Cornell employees looking for environmentally (and fiscally) friendly commuting strategies is that Cornell has been designated one of 1,500 Best Workplaces for Commuters by…
A project by Cornell city and regional planning (CRP) graduate students to help the Otsego Land Trust conserve land in upstate New York has won a national award from the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). The 2004…
When 10,000 honeybees fly the coop to hunt for a new home, usually a tree cavity, they have a unique method of deciding which site is right: With great efficiency they narrow down the options and minimize bad decisions.
Legendary insurance mogul Maurice R. Greenberg and his wife, Corinne, were honored at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine April 11 at the dedication of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite bearing their name. Funded by…
How the safety of "Frankenfoods" and genetically modified organisms or World Bank economic advice become political hotbeds are examples of what the Cornell Institute for Social Sciences (ISS) will explore in its third theme…
Chris Barrett's economic development research takes him into the most poverty-stricken areas of rural Africa, the halls of Washington, D.C., and back to Cornell University, where he collaborates with biophysical and social scientists on innovative ways to improve the lives of some of the poorest people on Earth.
Academic women of color today aren't hindered so much by a glass ceiling, but one made of concrete, said Akanke Omorayo, the program coordinator of the University of Michigan's Women of Color in the Academy Project (WOCAP). She…
"Do I speak language or does language speak me?" The British poet and philosopher of language Denise Riley tackled this question in a campus talk March 30. She took an attentive audience of Cornell graduate students and faculty…
All Cornell seniors are being invited to participate in a senior survey to give Cornell administrators feedback about their college experience. All members of the Class of 2006 have been officially notified via an e-mail that…
"The current state of math in the media is abysmal," said math journalist Sara Robinson at an applied mathematics colloquium April 14 at Cornell University. What the math community needs, she said, is an independent mathematical…
