Guest Chef Series brings California, Chinese and Mediterranean cuisine to Cornell

California, Chinese and Mediterranean cuisine will tempt the palates of patrons attending this year's Guest Chef Series, sponsored by Cornell's School of Hotel Administration.

Scientists read the leaves: House plants show importance of vitamin C

By looking into the plant world, researchers are expanding human appreciation of ascorbic acid -- vitamin C. There is no doubt that this vitamin is key to human health or that people get it from the foods they eat.

Cornell program and director stress global dimensions of gender studies

The Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women called for "removing all the obstacles to women's active participation in all spheres of public and private life through a full and equal share in economic, social, cultural and political decision-making."

Witness, a Grammy-nominated Gospel group, will perform at Cornell University's Festival of Black Gospel Feb. 21

Witness, a Grammy-nominated singing quartet, will headline the 21st Annual Festival of Black Gospel at Cornell, Feb. 21 to 23. The festival is the centerpiece of the university's Black History Month celebration.

Cornell study finds employee personality holds key to successful work-sharing

Work-sharing, a workplace management approach used primarily in the auto- and apparel-manufacturing industries, may not be suitable for all types of employees, finds an ongoing Cornell study.

Cornell's College of Human Ecology offers expertise to state policy-makers

Welfare reform provides New York state an opportunity to examine all its programs affecting families, children and work, but to benefit from that opportunity, programs need to be carefully planned and evaluated using state-of-the-art research, a Cornell expert said.

Robert Stewart Smith is named acting dean of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Robert Stewart Smith, professor and associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell, has been named acting dean of the school. The appointment was effective Jan. 16.

Executive director named to Cornell's Einaudi Center for International Studies

David Lelyveld, a historian of South Asia and Islam, has been named executive director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell.

Film, starring Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne, is cornerstone of HBO's Black History Month programming

A film based on Cornell Professor David Feldshuh's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, Miss Evers' Boys, will make its debut on HBO Feb. 22 at 9 p.m.