The practice of self-injury by students is a growing concern at colleges and universities across the nation. Equally so at Cornell, where medical and counseling staffs at Gannett Health Services work collaboratively to identify and assist individuals who engage in self-injurious behavior (SIB).
NEW YORK -- In past weeks, Cornellians in New York City celebrated the renaissance of Hillel, went birdwatching in Central Park and helped forge collaborations between labor and protectors of the environment worldwide. Why is…
Three Cornell University students have received the 2006-07 Morris K. Udall Scholarship. The students garnered awards up to $5,000 each from a field of 445 nominations from 224 institutions.
Carl HopkinsAlthough these fish look alike and have the same DNA genetic makeup, they have very different electrical signals and will only mate with fish that produce the same signals. Cornell researchers believe that these…
Since 2000, some of the most exciting and productive academic work at Cornell and across the nation has taken place among faculty and students participating in the Future of Minority Studies Research Project (FMS). Through…
In such sports as basketball and baseball, U.S. national teams are the perennial "overdogs," invariably liked by Americans and hated by the rest of the world. But in soccer, the world's most popular spectator sport, the U.S. Men…
Leonie Brinkema, Cornell J.D. '76, recently made headlines as the judge in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, who on May 4 was convicted of being an accomplice in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and…
Composing inspirational music is Dick Lee's way to "make a joyful noise unto the Lord." And he's been doing so since he composed his first piece at age 5. A member of the Class of 1941, Lee is one of Cornell's oldest living…
World-renowned architect Richard Meier '56, B.Arch. '57, is returning to Cornell's campus -- not just for his 50th reunion or to view the progress of his landmark campus building, but for the premier of a video -- "Big Red to…
Cornell student engineers did not win the FSAE world championship race-car competition this year -- as they did last year and in eight previous years -- possibly due to an error by the competition organizers. But with pit work…
'First-Person Cornell' (Cornell University Library, 2006), written by historian and Cornell lecturer Carol Kammen, invites us into the daily lives of Cornell students.
Ahh, the sounds of summer: the fluid spiraling call of the wood thrush, the lulling babble of nearby streams and creeks ... the rapid-fire blasts from the common jackhammer, the infernal growling of large internal combustion…
