Both the county and Cornell United Way campaigns for 2016-17 kicked off last week, focusing on how gifts to the United Way help local agencies meet the basic needs of donors' friends and neighbors.
One group seems immune to the rush of self-esteem that comes with an online thumbs-up: people with a sense of purpose, which limits how reactive people are to positive feedback on social media.
The new field of media studies will be explored in a yearlong series of lectures beginning Oct. 6 that focus on emerging research, particularly by younger scholars in the field.
The Fifth Biennial Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference at Cornell Sept. 15-16 shined the spotlight the children of incarcerated parents and featured a multidisciplinary mix of scholars.
S. Kay Obendorf, who retired in June after 50 years at Cornell in the College of Human Ecology, was honored Sept. 8 with the unveiling of a quarter-scale model of “PolyForm,” an architectural art installation by Jenny Sabin at Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick '09 will discuss the Ithaca Plan: A Public Health and Safety Approach to Drugs and Drug Policy at noon Thursday, Sept. 29, in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.
Almost 100 people gathered Sept. 19 to kick off a yearlong conversation, "Freedom Interrupted: Race, Gender, Nation and Policing," an interdisciplinary cross-campus collaboration.
The second "Histories of Capitalism" conference. Sept. 29 through Oct. 1 at Cornell, will explore nature, science and folklore, and how they relate to capitalism, and other topics.
All are invited to attend the dedication of a women's rowing team shell in honor of the late Cornell president Elizabeth Garrett Saturday, Oct. 1, at 9:45 a.m., at the Cornell Rowing Center.
An innovative method that uses human embryonic stem cells to model type 2 diabetes caused by genetic mutations may enable researchers to identify drugs that could treat the disease.
Cornell researchers have demonstrated for the first time that the fatty acid composition in the tree swallow diet plays a key role in chick health and survival rates.
Cornell researchers have been awarded $4.2 million by the National Science Foundation to explore natural genetic variation in the tomato immune system and to use the findings to improve crops.
