When teenaged Alex Doonesbury made up a list of engineering colleges to visit last year, Cornell University was one of them. Alex is the daughter of Michael Doonesbury. You probably know them. They are creations of Garry Trudeau,…
The life of women's rights advocate Betty Friedan is being celebrated at Cornell on Monday, April 24, at 5 p.m. in the Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) Conference Center, Room 423.
Gravity is a familiar force. It's the reason for fear of heights. It holds the moon to the Earth, the Earth to the sun. It keeps beer from floating out of our glasses. But how? Is the Earth sending secret messages to the moon?…
In honor of its four decades, the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell University is throwing something of a scholarly celebration for itself this month.
Donald F. Smith, the Austin O. Hooey Dean of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell, will end his 10-year deanship in June 2007 to return to the veterinary faculty. Smith, who was appointed by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings in April…
President George W. Bush intends to appoint R. Richard Geddes to the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission for the life of the commission, according to an April 6 White House press release. Geddes,…
Cornell University President-elect David J. Skorton, who currently is president of the University of Iowa (UI), has received a 2006 Alumni Merit Award from the Northwestern University Alumni Association. Skorton takes up his…
One week after receiving her Cornell degree in biological and environmental engineering in May 2002, Ruth Levy was attending the Engineer Officer Basic Course at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. By October she was on active duty in Iraq,…
It's critical for physicians to have research experience, says Paul DiCorleto, Ph.D. '78. A practicing biochemist, DiCorleto is chair of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute. The clinic was ranked among the 10 best…
"I've never done one particular track, and I've always followed whatever I love and loved whatever I've done," said Cornell University Dean of Human Ecology Lisa Staiano-Coico at an April 5 panel discussion, "Women in Medicine…
