How much children learn in school depends in good measure on the attitudes and values of the surrounding community -- and on how much those values are shared by the children themselves -- education experts agreed at a symposium at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia.
Women have made "substantial progress" in gender equality over the past 25 years, increasing their presence in the labor market and narrowing the wage gap with men.
Former death row inmate Rolando Cruz has rescheduled his appearance at the Cornell Law School for Thursday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m. in Room G90 of Myron Taylor Hall.
Cornell Police investigators are asking members of the campus community, especially those who park in lots on the east end of campus, for help in tracking down a person who has been placing malicious messages on cars.
At 10 a.m. Friday, March 13, 1998, Cornell University Provost Don Randel was scheduled to ascend to the top of the library tower to take a sample of the famous pumpkin. At 9:18 a.m. workmen testing the crane accidentally bumped the pumpkin and knocked it off the spire.
Feminist author Susan Faludi will deliver the annual Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Foundation Lecture on Thursday, March 26, at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall at Cornell.
People across the continent can help make bird-watching history on February 20, 21, and 22 by participating in the first-ever BirdSource Great '98 Backyard Bird Count, cosponsored by the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society.
Christopher W. Clark, the engineer-biologist who heads the Bioacoustics Research Program at Cornell, has been named to the newly established Imogene Powers Johnson Senior Scientist chair at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
Almost the entire permanent collection -- more than 27,000 objects -- of Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art will be made available for viewing on the World Wide Web over the next two years.
