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…
Cornell is continuing its efforts toward ensuring that any workers who help produce Cornell-logo clothing are paid a living wage and allowed union representation. On April 4, the university issued a statement endorsing …
Imagine if you firmly held a straw at each end, and you slowly moved one hand away from you. The straw would slowly curve, twist and become oval until it bent. That's what pipes do in earthquakes. On April 6 Cornell University…
"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…
"We're all about connecting theory to practice," said Michael Johnson, dean-elect of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. Giving a talk on marketing effectively in a service economy April 8 in Statler Hall's Beck…
Valdemar Velasquez was only 6 when he began working in the sugar beet fields of Ohio to help put food on his family's table. He knew that his Mexican-born parents wanted more for him, but as impoverished migrant farmworkers they…
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.
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,…
