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Novel diversity programs offer promise, new study finds

A Cornell-led consortium has authored a white paper, 'Eliminating Racial Disparities in College Completion and Achievement,' for the Teagle Foundation.

A mix of color, candor and cosmology as Cornell symposium honors Riccardo Giovanelli's 60th birthday

An Oct. 13-14 symposium, 'Dark and Dusty Galaxies: Galaxy Surveys with Really Gigantic (RG) Telescopes,' was held to celebrate Professor Riccardo Giovanelli's 60th birthday.

Literary critic Sandra Gilbert named M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor

The Department of English has established the M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professorship in honor of the renowned Cornell professor emeritus. Literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert '57 has accepted the inaugural professorship for the spring 2007 semester.

Civil engineering school celebrates opening of Bovay lab complex

Donning colorful construction hats, Cornell faculty, staff, students and alumni gathered during Homecoming Weekend to help dedicate the Harry E. Bovay Jr. '36 Laboratory Complex.

Cornell United Way campaign kicks off, with 10 percent of its goal already met

The 2006 Cornell United Way campaign kicked off Oct. 11 with the goals of $660,000 a 20 percent participation rate.

Theater troupe teaches ethics in biology class by showing how not to take the easy way out

The Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble proves to be an 'extraordinary teaching resource' by helping Professor Carl Hopkins run a class discussion on responsible conduct in the biological sciences as part of a freshman biology course.

Give peas a chance: Alum's cookbook offers lots of legume recipes with science on the side

From appetizers to desserts and every dish in between, Nancy Longnecker's cookbook, 'Passion for Pulses: A Feast of Beans, Peas and Lentils From Around the World,' offers legume-rich recipes with a side of science.

Forthcoming Nicaraguan election is a critical turning point, the nation's OAS ambassador stresses on campus visit

The outcome of Nicaragua's Nov. 5 elections will have far-reaching international political and economic ripples, according to Jose Luis Velazquez Pereira, who spoke at Cornell Oct. 12.

TV producer Don Hewitt talks about why '60 Minutes' is both a 'freak' TV show and the future of news

Marilyn Berger Hewitt '56, a New York Times contributor, and her husband, Don Hewitt, creator of CBS' '60 Minutes,' reflected on their lives as journalists Oct. 12 at the Alice Cook House on campus.

Pei Shin Nei, Clark Award winner, dies at 86

Pei Shin Ni, a former lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages, died Sept. 30 at her son's home in Las Cruces, N.M. She was 86.

Four Cornell area studies programs receive $7 million in federal funding

Four Cornell area studies programs have been designated National Resource Centers with grants totaling a little more than $750,000 per year through 2010.

New Arctic exhibit comes on eve of Cornell's two-year-old pact with Paleontological Research Institution

As the Paleontological Research Institution ends its second year of formal affiliation with Cornell, a new photography exhibit of the natural beauty and the fragility of Alaska's Arctic slope is to be featured at the institution's Museum of the Earth.