Undergrad marshals resources to build school in Haiti

Community engagement is the key for an energetic team of Cornell undergraduates working to build an inclusive-education school in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

Dangerous, underpaid work for the undocumented

Undocumented workers do dangerous jobs without premium pay, and no compensation when they're hurt.

Paleoanthropologist Kenneth Kennedy dies at 83

A memorial service for Kenneth A.R. Kennedy, the "father of human paleoanthropology" in South Asia and 41-year Cornell faculty member, will be June 14 at St. John's Episcopal Church in Ithaca.

Climate change caused empire's fall, tree rings reveal

Archaeologist Sturt Manning and colleagues have precisely dated an arid climate event circa 2200 B.C. through tree ring samples taken from an Egyptian coffin.

Grants further environmental policy research

Two USDA grants are furthering the research of Cornell professors Harry de Gorter and Mildred Warner into the effects of environmental policy on biofuels and development.

Rowers, design students fashion retro uniforms

Big Red men's heavyweight rowers are sporting new swag after partnering with Cornell fiber science and apparel design graduate students to create retro practice uniforms.

Social sciences project to study creativity, entrepreneurship

The next two-year theme project of the Institute for the Social Sciences is "Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship."

Overcoming tofu fear, living the life of soy

Dispelling myths about unfamiliar foods is key to wider use, according to a recent study by Cornell behavioral scientists.

Economics focuses on undergraduate experience

The Department of Economics has hired an undergraduate student experience coordinator and created a new undergraduate economics lounge. The changes will improve connections between more than 500 undergraduate majors.