Cornell's American Indian Program will host a seminar titled “Indian Economic Futures: Governance and State Taxation” on Aug. 30 and 31 in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium in Kennedy Hall.
Native Americas has been named best magazine by the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA), a Minnesota-based professional organization with more than 400 members. The journal also won in the categories of best editorial, best news story and best feature photo.
Sarah Elizabeth Thomas, acting director of public service collections for the Library of Congress, has been named the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University. The appointment, effective Aug. 19, was made by Provost Don M. Randel.
Professor Urie Bronfenbrenner is the first recipient of the American Psychological Association's new award, named in his honor, the Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society.
Cornell scientists believe the NASA-led research team that announced its findings to the world that day has provided excellent data to substantiate its claim that life once existed on Mars.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in the world where poverty keeps getting worse, a Cornell economist says. His new mission: to head up a major, collaborative research effort with a strong focus on policy that will have a major impact on improving the lives of millions of poor Africans.
Humpback whales seem not to be bothered as they swim near a scaled-down version of the Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate underwater speakers that produce a sound some critics fear would harm them, a Cornell team of biologists has reported to the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Janet Corson-Rikert, a Cornell University physician since 1992 and interim director of University Health Services for the past year, has been named director.
Since China started economic reforms in 1978, Chinese children have been growing taller, but in the past ten years, the gains by rural children have been only one-fifth that of urban children, according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Fearful that a little eggnog or Caesar salad dressing might send you to bed with a Salmonella-related illness? The chances are slight, but they’re even slimmer if your eggs are produced in New York, thanks to the Salmonella Control Program conducted by the Unit of Avian Medicine at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
The process that makes human beings human is breaking down as disruptive trends in American society produce ever more chaos in the lives of American children. The gravity of the crisis threatens the competence and character of the next generation of adults -- those destined to be the first leaders of the 21st century, according to five leading Cornell professors in a new book.
Ron LaFrance, the former director of the American Indian Program, died suddenly of a heart attack July 29 at his home on the Akwesasne Reservation, near Hogansburg, N.Y. He was 51.
