Expert offers scant good news on the subject of failed and failing states

On the 28th anniversary of Robert Mugabe's rise to power in Zimbabwe, Robert Rotberg, president of the World Peace Foundation, conceded that he once was enamored with the Zimbabwean despot. (April 25, 2008)

Physicist Drell calls for scientists to act more selflessly — and broadly — in seeking science funding

Persis Drell, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator and former professor of physics at Cornell, spoke to physicists and physics teachers on the state of national funding for the physical sciences.

Nobel Laureate Chu emphasizes energy efficiency, innovation in Bethe lecture

Steven Chu, who received the 1997 Nobel Prize for 'development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light,' delivered the 2008 Hans A. Bethe lecture at Cornell April 16.

Cornell Press publishes art book of manuscript pages

A lavishly illustrated new book from Cornell University Press makes medieval manuscripts accessible to students and general readers. (April 22, 2008)

Manhattan seventh graders see stars at Space Sciences

Seventh graders from a Manhattan school visited the astronomy department for two days of all things astronomy.

Effective climate change strategies call for new rules in global politics and economics

To combat global climate change, we need to change the rules underlying global politics and economics, said Timothy Wirth, president of the U.N. Foundation and Better World Fund, April 17. (April 21, 2008)

With poems at the ready, Cornell writers join New York City poetry celebration

Three Cornell graduate student writers and a Weill Cornell M.D. read their original verse as part of the sixth annual Poem in Your Pocket Day, April 17 in New York City's Bryant Park. (April 18, 2008)

Partnership agreement will bring $2.3 million annually to Arecibo Observatory for outreach, education

Puerto Rican Governor Anibal S. Acevedo Vila and Arecibo Observatory officials signed an agreement to expand outreach and education to schoolchildren through the Angel Ramos Visitor Center.

Mellon fellowships will aid Cornell professors' research on welfare reform and Roman burial practices

Professor of classics and history Eric Rebillard and Anna Marie Smith, professor of government, have received fellowships for 2008-09 to support extradisciplinary training for their research projects. (April 16, 2008)