Memorial service for Ron LaFrance to be held at Cornell Oct. 4

A memorial service for Ron LaFrance, former director of the Cornell University American Indian Program, will be held at Cornell on Friday, Oct. 4.

State Supreme Court upholds Cornell sexual harassment procedures

A New York State Supreme Court Justice has issued a ruling upholding Cornell University's sexual harassment procedures in a $1.5 million lawsuit brought against Cornell by a tenured professor.

Cornell to celebrate Homecoming Weekend Sept. 20-22

Cornell alumni will revisit their alma mater the weekend of Sept. 20-22 for Homecoming 1996, the university's annual fall celebration featuring educational, athletic and social events for all members of the Cornell community.

Human-like ability, categorical perception, found in insects Cornell biologists' experiments show how crickets tell love songs from bats' ultrasound

Humans and other "higher" animals aren't so special when it comes to making life-or-death decisions in an instant, a Cornell University study of insect hearing has found. Even the lowly cricket employs a sophisticated capability, called categorical perception, when its life (or love life ) is at stake.

Federal agency dismisses complaint against Cornell residential program

Cornell announced Sept. 22 that the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education has closed its investigation of a complaint alleging that the University maintains racially- and ethnically-segregated residence halls.

Three renowned speakers -- a historian, a psychoanalyst and a geophysicist - will visit the Cornell campus this month

Three renowned speakers -- a historian, a psychoanalyst and a geophysicist -- will visit the  this month and next as A. D. White Professors-at-Large, giving public lectures.

Legal expert to talk about "Sex, Lies and the Internet" in Kops Lecture at Cornell on Sept. 16

Freedom of expression in cyberspace: Should there be any limits? If so, who should decide what the rules will be?

Cornell chemists create world's smallest wires and encase them in plastic polymer

Cornell chemists have created the world's smallest wires and encased them in a plastic polymer, an accomplishment that could lead to a host of new electrical or optical uses at the nanometer scale.

Cornell psychological scientist edits two new books on psychopathology

Top scholars in psychological science present state-of-the-art thinking on personality disorders and developmental psychopathology in two new books edited by Cornell clinical psychologist and psychopathology researcher Mark F. Lenzenweger: Major Theories of Personality Disorder and Frontiers of Developmental Psychopathology