It's not every day (surely) that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) gets startling briefings on the state of woodchuck health. Clinton was at Cornell to attend an evening meeting of the Democratic Rural Conference of New York State.
Bird experts believed for years that once a bird learned songs, the calls stayed relatively fixed throughout their lives, but a new study of loons, streamlined fish-eating water birds, calls those beliefs into question. (March 7, 2006)
Paul Ginsparg, Cornell professor of physics and information science, Cornell Ph.D. in physics (1981) and a pioneer in Internet scientific communications, has been named winner of the Paul Evan Peters Award from the Coalition for…
Stephen Marschner, assistant professor of computer science, is the recipient of a 2006 Sloan Research Fellowship that recognizes his work in computer graphics.
The fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provide support…
The Cornell campus hosts a group of serious critical thinkers each summer at the School of Criticism and Theory (SCT) during an intensive six-week seminar that returns for its 30th session.
Cornell University Architect Peter Karp plans to retire Nov. 10, after a decade at the university.
"Cornell has been truly fortunate to be able to benefit from Peter Karp's experience and reputation with associates throughout…
Six undergraduate degree programs in the College of Engineering have been reaccredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), which accredits 2,400 programs at more than 500 institutions.
The…
Cornell Cinema will host three documentary filmmakers March 10-12 to present their "real world work" on war in Darfur, on a landmark American hate crime and on the history of the African diaspora. All screenings are in Willard…
Love and death are boon companions to writers of all stripes. But it is how human beings cope with grief and loss that author Lamar Herrin finds intriguing.
Classics is considered one of the original collaborative programs because of its multidisciplinary scope. Professor of classics Sturt Manning, who joined the Cornell faculty in January, takes that notion even further afield --…
The situation has become "too difficult" in Iraq and the peace process aimed at rebuilding the country is not working, warns Lakhdar Brahimi, former special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
He was on…
