The Arecibo Observatory, home of the world's largest radio-radar telescope, has moved close to completion of a major upgrade that makes it one of the most sensitive and powerful tools ever designed for astronomical studies.
Children who do not consistently live with two biological parents are only half as likely to ever attend a selective college, even after researchers take into account factors such as income and parent education, according to a new Cornell study.
With New England leading the way, April showers brought 133 percent of the Northeast's normal precipitation, making it the 10th wettest April in 102 years of records, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
Cornell students won the National Championship of Soil Judging held April 26 at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Okla., scoring 2,060 points, beating second-place University of Wisconsin-Platteville at 2,032.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca on May 24 and 25. The full board will convene at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 25, in the Hans Bethe Seminar Room, 700 Clark Hall.
Consumers are not generous when it comes to rewarding good service from waiters and waitresses. The relationship between good service and tipping is weak,finds new study by Cornell University and the University of Houston.
Dr. Maria I. New, the Harold and Percy Uris Professor of Pediatric University Medical College, and pediatrician-in-chief at The New York Hospital, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
The shrinking population of nursing assistants is a "hidden time bomb" and an impending crisis that will implode the entire nursing home system in the next few decades if drastic measures aren't taken soon, says a Cornell social gerontologist and nursing home expert.
High school teachers from across North America and from as far away as Asia will travel to Cornell University to be honored by their former students on May 22. The students, honored as Merrill Presidential Scholars, represent the top 5 percent of Cornell's 1996 graduating class.
American adolescents are not the only ones who have a tough time making the tumultuous transition from childhood to adulthood. Nearly all societies describe this period as filled with challenges, crucial decisions and important experiences.
