The president of a migrant farmworkers union and a leader of a community organization helping poor and moderate-income families in post-Katrina New Orleans are among the featured speakers at Union Days 2006. The annual event,…
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson will give the 2006 Rudin Lecture on American Culture on Wednesday, April 5, at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall on campus. Robinson's talk, "The Ghost in the…
In Ensemble X's April Fool's Day concert, all is not as it seems. Coded messages, double meanings, pandemonium and musical mishaps abound. The free is concert on Saturday, April 1, at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall.
Kathleen M. Rasmussen, professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University, will be the first recipient of the Excellence in Nutrition Education Award from the American Society of Nutrition (ASN) on April 2 in San Francisco…
Madhura Kulkarni, a Cornell Ph.D. candidate in natural resources, has been named one of two 2006 Emerging Public Policy Leaders by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), a Washington-based nonprofit scientific…
Cornell professor emerita of design and environmental analysis Madeline Comer Blum, born May 20, 1909, in Osage, Okla., died March 20 in Hemet, Calif., of a heart attack. She was 96.
Blum joined the Cornell faculty in 1955 in…
An enzyme previously associated with preventing the dementia of Alzheimer's disease now appears to play an even bigger role in safeguarding against the disease, bringing the promise of new targets for drug therapies.
While…
Ira Revels, a Cornell University digital projects librarian, has been named one of Library Journal's "Movers and Shakers" for 2006.
Revels, who manages the library's Historically Black College and Universities Library Alliance …
The students hailing from Iran, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian Authority, Syria and Jordan had never met each other. They arrived at the workshop in Petra, Jordan, with only the scantest understanding of each other…
Last summer, a previously healthy farmer checked into Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N.Y., complaining of sudden fever and confusion. His pulse was racing, and he was breathing rapidly.
Sally Dutko calls her vibrant fiber art wall hangings "fabric paintings," and her work so impressed the jury at the 2005 Fine Arts Quilts national exhibition in Memphis last summer that she walked away with the First Place Award…
