A volunteer program is connecting graduate students in the sciences and other fields with K-12 classrooms to teach mini-courses in Tompkins, Cayuga and Seneca county schools.
For the average person, the time before the start of the holiday season is the low point in an annual weight gain pattern that peaks during the holidays and takes nearly half a year to fully shed.
From using drones to track nutrient management in upstate corn fields to working with Head Start programs in Harlem, Cornell Cooperative Extension interns helped New York communities this summer.
Debates showcase personality says Sam Nelson, ILR School senior lecturer and director of the Cornell Speech and Debate Society, who predicts big audiences for the presidential debates.
One group seems immune to the rush of self-esteem that comes with an online thumbs-up: people with a sense of purpose, which limits how reactive people are to positive feedback on social media.
The new field of media studies will be explored in a yearlong series of lectures beginning Oct. 6 that focus on emerging research, particularly by younger scholars in the field.
The Fifth Biennial Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference at Cornell Sept. 15-16 shined the spotlight the children of incarcerated parents and featured a multidisciplinary mix of scholars.
Almost 100 people gathered Sept. 19 to kick off a yearlong conversation, "Freedom Interrupted: Race, Gender, Nation and Policing," an interdisciplinary cross-campus collaboration.
A new award from the Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences will digitize glass models of marine invertebrates, punk music fliers, labor movement archives and plans for archaeological site.
