With a bill before Congress to curb large awards in class-action court settlements again, U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) recently attacked such awards as "jackpot justice." But are the fees meted out by the courts really skyrocketing?
More than 80 percent of farmland in the United States is managed by farmers whose operations fall between small-scale direct markets and large, consolidated farms. These farmers increasingly are left out of the food system, and if current trends continue, the fear is that these farms will disappear in the next decade or two.
Mary Pat Brady, assistant professor of English at Cornell University, is the winner of the Modern Language Association of America's first annual prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies.
At its meeting on Friday, Jan. 23, the Board of Trustees approved a set of planning parameters for the 2004-05 budget that calls for a 4.8 percent tuition increase for most students in the endowed colleges.
The speech Nelson Mandela gave when he was released from South Africa's Robben Island prison; articles in African newspapers about the AIDS epidemic; favorite stories of Nigerian schoolchildren: These are some of the primary source materials about Africa on a new Cornell outreach Website.
Weill Cornell Medical College has received a $250,000 grant from the Avon Foundation to support a unique new meditation-based stress reduction program for women who have been treated for breast cancer or gynecologic cancer.
On Super Bowl Sunday this Feb. 1, Douglas Stayman and his MBA marketing students will be back at it again studying every move – not of the players but who is advertising and why – and who is getting the most bang for the buck.
While "location, location, location" has long been the mantra in real estate, it may soon become the buzzword of stem cell scientists everywhere. Weill Cornell researchers have discovered that bone marrow stem and progenitor cells – immature cells that can give rise to all the cells of the blood and immune system.
The supplemental environmental impact statement for the College of Veterinary Medicine's proposed Waste Management Facility will be discussed at a public information meeting Wednesday, Jan. 28, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Borg Warner Room of the Tompkins County Public Library.
A Cornell professor will share in a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a significant advance in the realism of computer graphics and animation.
Steven D. Tanksley, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding and chair of the Genomics Initiative Task Force at Cornell, is one of two scientists to share the prestigious 2004 Wolf Foundation Prize in Agriculture for his "innovative development of hybrid rice and discovery of the genetic basis of heterosis in this important food staple."
Collective memory is a fabric that fades without use. So when Kenneth Clarke discovered Martin Luther King Jr.'s name in a Cornell Sage Chapel ledger of past guest speakers, it was news to him. As it turns out, it's news to many people at Cornell and the greater Ithaca area.
