Cornell's Shoals Marine Laboratory (SML) has announced eight merit-based scholarships for Cornell undergraduates to study marine sciences at the laboratory's summer program. The scholarships, funded by Henry (Hank) E. and Nancy…
Cornell faculty members will present research on topics from how dragonflies stay aloft to the fight against world hunger at the annual meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Feb. 16-20 in St…
"To make what seems strange more familiar and to work toward understanding ..."
Speaking of her own teaching recently, Kim Haines-Eitzen also succeeded in effectively framing the academic ethos of the Department of Near Eastern…
To some, the word anthropologist brings to mind images of dusty books, of lonely archives filled with chipped bones and pottery shards.
Meredith Small is not such an anthropologist.
Yes, she has read the dusty books. But the…
Sarah Rice '06 played the first movement of Edouard Lalo's Cello Concerto in D Minor to win the 2006 Cornell Concerto Competition, held Feb. 4 in Barnes Hall. She will perform the piece in concert with the Cornell Symphony…
The space in front of Bailey Hall is one of the most intensely studied areas on the Cornell campus. Numerous designs have been submitted to improve what everyone generally agrees is an eyesore. One by one, these visions proved…
With the renovation of Cornell's Bailey Hall on schedule for completion in August, the 94-year-old hall is well on its way to a grand new look -- and a brand new sound and feel. When the doors open, audiences will find new…
Construction projects and bridge repairs will soon put the squeeze on campus drivers. The good news: When the dust settles, Thurston Avenue Bridge will have been widened to better accommodate pedestrian, bicycle and car traffic,…
The controversy over teaching evolution in public schools brings to light deeper issues: the quality of teacher education, the nature of school science curricula, the U.S. Constitution and political process, anti-intellectualism…
How evolutionary biology shapes our understanding of other areas of science, including genomics, was just one of the themes of a public panel discussion Feb. 10 associated with Ithaca's Darwin Day to celebrate Charles Darwin's…
To make their winter break count for something more than rest and relaxation, a group of Cornell students took a 10-day work trip to east Africa, where they provided Tanzanian seed companies with technical and analytical…
The Buffalo Pest Management Board of Buffalo, N.Y., has been awarded the Excellence in IPM Award by the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program, a partnership between the state and Cornell University, for its can-do attitude in seeking and promoting lowest-risk solutions to the city's pest problems. (February 14, 2006)
