A group of experts on peer-to-peer file sharing managed to agree on one thing last night: that having people obtain intellectual property without compensating the creators is not a good thing.
U.S. President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld may not all get a library, airport or highway named after them. But each has a slime-mold beetle named in his honor.
Two undergraduates have won Udall Scholarship. They are Shoshannah Lenski, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Lena Samsonenko, a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Trying to lose weight, be less nervous when speaking publicly or improve in some other way? One strategy that can help is to switch your point of view from the first-person to a third-person perspective when reviewing your progress.
Cornell University President Jeffrey S. Lehman has accepted the resignation of Inge Reichenbach as Cornell's Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development.
In what could prove to be an important development in the search for a treatment of Alzheimer's disease, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center physician-scientists say the results of an initial (Phase I) clinical study provide encouraging results.
Cornell Police will soon be driving home an important safety message: Buckle your seat belt or get a ticket. From April 18 through April 22, Cornell Police will be bringing the fourth annual "Click It or Ticket" campaign back to campus.
U.S. President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld may not all get a library, airport or highway named after them. But each has a slime-mold beetle named in his honor.
Anita L. Allen, author and University of Pennsylvania professor of law, will present a talk titled "A Tour of the Ethical Landscape," Tuesday, April 19, at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Auditorium (Auditorium D) in Goldwin Smith Hall. Allen is the author of The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st Century Moral Landscape (2004), named by Publisher's Weekly as one of the top nonfiction books of 2004. (April 12, 2005)
A scholarly reflection on the legacy of the late French philosopher Jacques Derrida titled "Literature and Democracy" will be held April 15 to 16 on the Cornell University campus. It is free and open to the public. Hosted by the Cornell Program in French Studies, the symposium brings together nine outstanding scholars in the fields of literature and literary theory -- Derrida's happy hunting grounds. (April 12, 2005)
ITHACA, N.Y. --Cornell University's Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large program will host two distinguished visitors this month: Lynn Hershman Leeson, professor of art in the Technocultural Studies Program at the University of California-Davis, and Jules Pretty, head of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Essex, England. Pretty will lecture on "Clarifying the Ends and Means of Sustainability: Some European Perspectives," Wednesday, April 20, at 4:30 p.m. in 401 Warren Hall. (April 12, 2005)
Paul Rusesabagina, the hero portrayed in the Oscar-nominated movie "Hotel Rwanda," will deliver a public lecture, "Hotel Rwanda: A Lesson Yet to Be Learned," Wednesday April 20, at 8 p.m. in the Statler Auditorium on the Cornell University campus. Tickets are $5, available at the Willard Straight ticket office. All proceeds will benefit the Genocide Intervention Fund. (April 12, 2005)
