Nimat Hafez Barazangi, a research fellow in Cornell's Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, has been providing commentary on the draft Iraqi constitution, including a scriptural rationale for changes to improve the status of women under the new government.
Cornell's Interim President Hunter R. Rawlings III has accepted the resignation of Vanda B. McMurtry as vice president for government and community relations.
A new switch designed by Cornell engineers uses water droplets to create very strong adhesive bonds that can flicked on and off in an instant. The switch was inspired by a mechanism found in palm beetles.
Cornell has licensed operation of its hydroponics greenhouse - which produces herbs and 6,000 heads of lettuce weekly - to Challenge Industries, providing steady jobs to more than a dozen people who otherwise face barriers to employment.
A study by a finance expert at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and three colleagues shows that mutual funds do better when the fund manager has "skin in the game" -- and gains financially when the fund prospers.
Engineers for a Sustainable World, a nonprofit organization based at Cornell, sponsored students to work on engineering projects in developing countries this summer.
Young adult women whose mothers cohabit are 57 percent more likely than other women to report cohabitation themselves, according to a study by Cornell's Dan Lichter and Ohio State University colleagues.
A report by a Cornell immigration policy expert, a researcher with the Migration Policy Institute and the institute's president states that visa, travel and border inspections need to be made easier for legitimate foreign visitors, while still keeping the United States safe.
The 30th Annual Northeast Regional Summer School for Union Women took place on Cornell University's campus Aug. 7-12, in association with the United Association of Labor Education (UALE) and Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
A new book looks at changing wars, aging laws and the need for new laws that govern warfare. It was written by a Cornell professor of law who worked at the National Security Council and by a professor of government who heads the Peace Studies program at Cornell.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center's newly named Komansky Center for Children's Health is designed to meet the special needs of children and families.
Antibiotics are everywhere -- from the dry cleaners to your soap dispenser -- killing off the bacteria that threaten to make you sick. But a sterile, antiseptic world might do more harm than good, and the onslaught of antibiotics might undermine their very purpose.
