You can lead students to a list of alumni contacts, but getting them to take the scary step of calling a complete stranger for advice is tough. Unless it counts on their grade.
On Saturday, March 3, there will be a Venezuelan Cultural Night benefit concert in Barnes Hall. And a seminar, 'What Happened in Venezuela?' at a time and date to be announced, will provide more information on the disaster.
Harold D. Craft Jr., vice president for facilities and campus services at Cornell, today (April 19) issued the following statement concerning several events involving a CU Transit bus on April 15: "The safety of the entire community is a primary objective of the CU Transit system.
The 1-800-KITTY-DR phone rings in Cornell University's Feline Health Center and veterinarian Fiona Hickford is on the line, ready to answer questions for a consultation fee.
Researchers at Cornell have had their best success yet in simulating the folding of a protein solely from the physical laws that govern the behavior of its atoms.
The Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell has developed a special program designed to repay up to $25,000 of student loan debt as a way of helping its MBA graduates pursue entrepreneurial ventures straight out of school.
A Cornell archaeological project in Greece has won a double dose of financial support from the citizens of a small Greek village and a major American archaeological foundation.
This summer Cornell will host the Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, a major event held every other year that draws hundreds of scholars from several disciplines and countries. Although Cornell has a long history in linguistics, this is the first time that Ithaca has been home to the Institute.
Returning to campus from expeditions in the forests of South and Central America, a team of Cornell undergraduate science students is applying modern analytical techniques to learn the chemistry behind the nature-based medicinals that work for native peoples.
Cornell biologists, who became underwater disc jockeys to study a homely fish that hums, say they have a clue as to how mate selection works. The auditory portion of the midbrain uses the acoustic qualities of all the noise to isolate one signal it is programmed to recognize as potentially interesting.
Amos Webber (1826-1904) perhaps never intended there would be a biography written of him. After all, his life as a black man born free in the North, as a Civil War soldier, as a servant and janitor was the not an experience that captured headlines. His was a life that could be overlooked easily by historians and others who document America's past.