Love and death are boon companions to writers of all stripes. But it is how human beings cope with grief and loss that author Lamar Herrin finds intriguing.
Classics is considered one of the original collaborative programs because of its multidisciplinary scope. Professor of classics Sturt Manning, who joined the Cornell faculty in January, takes that notion even further afield --…
The situation has become "too difficult" in Iraq and the peace process aimed at rebuilding the country is not working, warns Lakhdar Brahimi, former special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He was on…
"This is a generation that is idealistic in wanting to make a difference. Our challenge is to honor that motivation," said former Peace Corps director and Clinton administration official Mark Gearan talking about civic engagement…
"Being talented and dedicated, one of you could be standing here in 2039 as the chairman or CEO of a major American company and looking back at the good old days in 2006," said Sharon L. Allen, the first woman chairman of…
Cornell was a dominant presence at the National Textile Center's 14th Annual Forum in Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 19-21. Lisa Staiano-Coico, the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of the College of Human Ecology, was the featured…
NEW YORK -- A capacity crowd filled the Weill Auditorium for a recent Career Pathways presentation, "Walking the Academic Road." A panel of junior faculty from the Weill Cornell Graduate School spoke with students at length about…
Students at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) are finding better ways to tackle intensive premedical courses, thanks to an extension of Cornell University's teaching assistant (TA) program to Doha.
Over the past…
The Cornell Art Faculty Exhibit at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art samples the creative output and traditional and nontraditional approaches of 15 faculty members, all of them working artists. Liz Emrich, a collections…
The stabbing of a visiting black Union College student allegedly by a white Cornell student on West Campus, says Cornell President Hunter R. Rawlings, "has had a galvanizing effect on all of us. ... This is an incident that makes…
As genomics - the study of genes - continues to revolutionize the life sciences, Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine has announced the opening of a DNA bank, administered through its Department of Clinical Sciences.
The 56 county-based Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) associations are a vital part of Cornell's land-grant mission. They act as fingers reaching out from Cornell, providing information and services that may be the only…
