Low-skilled services aren't the only occupations shifting overseas, says the ILR School's Sarosh Kuruvilla. His latest research shows that many high-skilled U.S. jobs are being outsourced to India. (July 12, 2007)
The interdisciplinary approach of the June workshop, 'Teaching World Culture Through Art,' was intended to encourage local art teachers to more fully integrate international studies into their curricula. (July 12, 2007)
When it comes to the economy, the New York state of mind is deteriorating, according to the 2007 Empire State Poll, a yearly survey conducted by Cornell's Survey Research Institute. (July 12, 2007)
Art department faculty members found a new audience for their work in June with exhibits in China, thanks to an evolving partnership between the department and Tsinghua University in Beijing. (July 11, 2007)
Farmers will grapple with new and aggressive crop pests, summer heat stress and water problems that could strain family farms to the limit, warns David Wolfe, a Cornell expert on the effects of climate change on agriculture. (July 11, 2007)
A study of genome sequences in African-Americans, European-Americans and Chinese suggests that natural selection has caused as much as 10 percent of the human genome to change in some populations in the last 15,000 to 100,000 years. (July 11, 2007)
This week a 32-year-old Guatemalan man is getting a second chance to gain his freedom -- and possibly save his life -- thanks to the help of Cornell Law School's Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic. (July 10, 2007)
As Cornell's Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering enters its second century, a professor emeritus has chronicled its early roots in agricultural studies and its many changes over the years.
Art critic, editor and curator Patricia Phillips has been appointed art department chair, effective July 1. She succeeds Franklin Spector, who will continue teaching following a sabbatical. (July 6, 2007)
The Cornell Theory Center has been reorganized and renamed in a move designed to make its high-performance computing resources more efficient and effective for researchers and to take advantage of opportunities for research funding. (July 6, 2007)
The Olin Library exhibit runs through mid-August and showcases a wide variety of government maps, including the U.S. Geological Survey's topographic quadrangles and maps produced from satellite imagery. (July 5, 2007)
More than 450 teens participated in Cooperative Extension's 4-H Career Explorations program, which gave the students a taste of college, a glimpse into some future careers and a strategy for preventing obesity. (July 5, 2007)