Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press Melody Davidson, Cornell's women's ice hockey head coach and coach of the Canadian women's ice hockey team at the 2006 Olympic Games, goes over a play with team member Danielle Goyette before the…
Cornell students participated in group study projects including cleaning out flooded houses in New Orleans, archiving local political history in Vermont and studying sustainable development along the Panama Canal.
Cornell undergraduate Kevin Hwang '07 was named to the All-USA College Academic Team by USA Today in its Feb. 15 issue. Among other accomplishments, Hwang was noted for founding The Triple Helix: The National Journal of Science,…
Cornell Hillel's Board of Trustees has announced that the 2006 Tanner Prize will be awarded to Cornell alumni Abby Joseph Cohen '73 and her husband, David M. Cohen '73, for their significant contributions to the Jewish people and to Cornell. (February 21, 2006)
Temple Grandin a renowned animal scientist and a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor at Cornell, has autism. As a result, she learned to think in pictures, which has strong parallels, she believes, to how animals think, she said in a public lecture Feb. 15, 2006 at Cornell. (February 21, 2006)
John W. Sipple, an associate professor of education at Cornell, had been teaching the Social and Political Context of American Education (Education 271/571) for seven years and had a smattering of audio and video in his class…
The annual Festival of Black Gospel (FBG), a 30-year tradition at Cornell University, will put the spotlight on one of its perennial performers this year. Lifelong Ithaca resident Stephanie McClain, who has sung in the FBG Mass…
ST. LOUIS -- If mastering flight is your goal, you can't do better than to emulate a dragonfly. With four wings instead of the standard two and an unusual pitching stroke that allows the bug to hover and even shift into reverse,…
ST. LOUIS -- Genetically engineered papaya that resists the devastating papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) has saved Hawaii's papaya industry. But efforts to grow PRSV-resistant papaya in developing countries are stalled, and…
ST. LOUIS -- Science learning isn't all in books. Sometimes you can hold it in your hand, walk through it, sit inside it, play with it. Those approaches are especially effective with children and can make abstract concepts easier…
