Being in the minority in an ethnically diverse crowd is distressing, regardless of your ethnicity, unless you have a sense of purpose in life, reports a Cornell developmental psychologist who conducted a study on Chicago trains.
South African activist Albert “Albie” Sachs made his first visit to campus Aug. 29 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large. He spoke about his work fighting apartheid, and he emphasized forgiveness.
Three new assistant professors - in the fields of the history of art, classics and music - have launched an interdisciplinary working group on medieval cosmology that will also offers seminars and lectures.
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, which aims to boost the number of faculty members from groups underrepresented in higher education, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
Cornell has once again been recognized as an adoption-friendly workplace, according to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoptive Parents, placing second among educational institutions.
A new educational performance based on students’ life experiences around relationships, sex and alcohol, “Speak About It,” was held Aug. 25 and 26 for all incoming first-year and transfer students.
Retiring Baby Boomers and lower-paid minorities will drive down median income over the next two decades, according to research by Richard Burkhauser and Jeff Larrimore.
In enrolling students from low-income families, Cornell is in the top 15 among selective private colleges and universities in a recent survey – and is tied with Columbia at No. 1 in New York state and the Ivy League.
Researchers and extension educators are working to help promote regional wild fish and game species to locavores as healthy food options, by adding the data they've collected to nutritional databases and starting a Wild Harvest Table initiative.
In the shadow of a Ferris wheel and just beyond the midway, The Great New York State Fair features a new exhibit: the Dairy Cow Birthing Center. Fairgoers have packed the barnyard maternity ward to standing room only.
A new study of female barn swallows has found that the birds with darker breast feathers – both naturally dark and artificially darkened (with markers) – experience less cell damage than lighter ones.
