Sociology professor Victor Nee was recently honored by the international Academy of Management with an award for his recent book project on the emergence and growth of a private enterprise economy in China.
CITIZEN U, a 4-H program run by Cornell Cooperative Extension and the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, is helping at-risk youth prepare for college careers.
Three new North Campus faculty-in-residence – Sahara Byrne, Christopher Umbach and Maria Fernandez – have developed programs for first-year students in their residence halls designed to encourage students' intellectual engagement in their daily lives.
New York growers who donate produce to food banks as part of the “Glean NY” initiative will be reimbursed for the cost of harvesting, thanks to a partnership that includes Cornell's College of Agriculture and Sciences.
Cornell researchers have developed a tool that can distinguish between normal cognitive declines in healthy older people and declines related to Alzheimer disease.
Architects Jacques Herzog and Peter Eisenman ’54, B.Arch. ’55, will visit campus to discuss their work Sept. 10-11 as part of the 2013 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture Series and Symposium in Milstein Hall.
Events on campus this week include a roundtable discussion of art repatriation, Indian cooking secrets at the Plantations, a classic American Cinema series, and Ke$ha concert ticket sales.
During a Sept. 3 campus visit, Sen. Charles Schumer pledged to put his political muscle behind getting Cornell official federal recognition as a national center of excellence in dairy and food safety. The designation would be the first of its kind supporting the dairy industry.
Cornell researchers have discovered a way to cripple the reproductive power of herpesviruses by up to 10,000 times. The technique involves locking up virus DNA inside its viral carriers, reports the study, which was published in Journal of Virology in July.
