Carrie Dann, elder and founder of the Western Shoshone Defense Project, doesn't look like a poster child for civil disobedience. With her salt-and-pepper hair and thick glasses she hardly fits the role of a hard-nosed human…
From skimpy minis to a full line of pastel wedding gowns dubbed "dearly belovely," 150 models strutted gorgeous, bizarre and luscious outfits down the runway at the 22nd Cornell Design League fashion show, April 8 in Barton Hall…
A 26-foot-long reticulated python bones are now assembled and elegantly framed in the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates research collection in the Imogene Powers Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity, home to Cornell's Lab of Ornithology.
The student-designed and -built solar house - the second-place winner in the U.S. Department of Energy's 2005 international Solar Decathlon competition - will not be leaving the area.
Do children of cohabitating families fare worse than children in married families? Do children in stepfather families show more symptoms of depression and risk-taking behaviors than children in single-mother families?
Eastman Kodak has provided a windfall -- worth almost $500,000 -- for Cornell laboratories. Late last year, the Rochester, N.Y., company decided to donate a large amount of equipment and laboratory supplies to a good home. By a…
Harvey Scott McMillin Jr., professor of English at Cornell University, died March 29. He was 71. A member of the Cornell faculty since 1964, McMillin's areas of interest included Elizabethan and modern drama and, more recently,…
As a teenager, Cornell University interim President Hunter Rawlings recalls he would have laughed at the thought of birding. Today he is an avid birder. "I have discovered birding in a big way," and it's "not a laughable matter,…
The first time Merve Kavakci protested the banning of Muslim headwear from Turkish schools and federal offices, she was a freshman at the University of Ankara. Years later she was ousted from the Turkish National Assembly in 1999…
NEW YORK -- The Cornell University Board of Trustees has appointed Dr. Antonio M. Gotto Jr. to a new five-year term as the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College and provost of medical affairs of Cornell…
How does a little girl growing up in the big city of San Francisco develop an abiding love and appreciation for nature and a passion for biology? Go fish. "My parents enjoyed fishing, and although my sister had no interest, I loved it," says Helene Dillard, director of Cornell Cooperative Extension.
Among the workplace amenities that life scientists value is a good library, according to a survey published recently by The Scientist. Cornell, which has one of the best library systems in the world, recently enhanced its…
