Based on the success of a $1.4 million program launched in 2001, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Cornell University an additional $1,785,000 over five years to continue postdoctoral fellowships and seminars in the humanities and social sciences.
Though lobbyists are suffering from an image problem these days, more than 100 academics and university representatives eagerly took on that role March 1-2 when they swarmed the halls of Congress and advocated for the humanities…
Police are investigating the death of Cornell freshman Matthew Tyler Pearlstone on Friday, March 17, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
"There's not much we're prepared to say at this point. There is no cause of…
David Sibley, a renowned birder, visited Cornell's Lab of Ornithology last year to view the blurry April 2004 video of an ivory-billed woodpecker, thought to be extinct for 60 years. The four-second video is the cornerstone…
Americans suffer from some 76 million cases of food-borne diseases (FBDs) each year. And some of the associated bacteria can have lasting health consequences, according to Kathryn Boor.
The following is an abridged version of an open letter that was sent to President Hunter R. Rawlings and Provost Biddy Martin:
To the editor:
As the committee charged by your office to advise Cornell's administration on the…
The following is an abridged version of an open letter that was sent to President Hunter R. Rawlings and Provost Biddy Martin:
To the editor:
As the committee charged by your office to advise Cornell's administration on the…
Around the world, soil is being swept and washed away 10 to 40 times faster than it is being replenished, destroying cropland the size of Indiana every year, reports a new Cornell University study.
Around the world, soil is being swept and washed away 10 to 40 times faster than it is being replenished, destroying cropland the size of Indiana every year, reports a new Cornell University study.
For postdoctoral researchers -- scientists who work in the "nomad's land" between the long grind of graduate school and long-term employment -- Cornell University has been ranked by The Scientist magazine as one of the best…
Cornell University was honored for its planned energy-efficient combined heat-and-power project (CHP) by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at the International District Energy Association's (IDEA) 19th Annual Campus…
As the Chinese media become more independent, public and Communist Party officials and even companies are filing successful defamation suits in the courts as a way to muffle opinion, said Benjamin Liebman, a law professor at…
