Stephen Morgan, professor of sociology, says his new study finds that comparing U.S. schools to schools in other countries can actually lower public support for U.S. education. (Oct. 29, 2012)
A panel discussion on Cornell's Engaged Learning and Research Oct. 27 focused on the collaboration with a theater group at the Auburn Correctional Facility. (Oct. 29, 2012)
Three Cornell economists discussed economic policy in the context of the current recession and the upcoming election at an Oct. 26 panel in Ives Hall. (Oct. 29, 2012)
President Skorton outlined the progress made on strategic plan initiatives and the work that yet remains, while looking toward the sesquicentennial, in his State of the University Address, Oct. 26. (Oct. 26, 2012)
On Oct. 25, former national security advisers Samuel Berger '67 and Stephen Hadley '69 discussed the challenges the next U.S. president will face in trying to reassert America's leadership in the world.
Sara Warner, associate professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, has published her first book, 'Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure.' (Oct. 26, 2012)
The Cornell NYC Tech campus has reached another milestone: The creation of its first endowed professorship, the Robert V. Tishman Founder's Chair, named for Tishman '37, who died in 2010 at age 94.
Fredrik Logevall and Jonathan Kirshner discussed foreign policy before an audience Oct. 22 at the Cornell Club in New York City, just before the televised debate on the topic.
Scholars will address risk - in areas ranging from epidemiology to literature to the housing crisis - at a Society for the Humanities conference, Oct. 26-27. (Oct. 25, 2012)
Twenty-four participants learned skills of execution, or leadership as the art of 'getting things done,' during the first two days of Cornell's capstone leadership program, Leading Cornell. (Oct. 25, 2012)
Events on campus this week include martial arts in theory and practice, a grand tour of Rome at the Johnson Museum, and 'Faust' with live musical accompaniment Halloween night in Sage Chapel. (Oct. 25, 2012)
