Academic articles that are freely available are read more often, but they are not cited more in academic literature, finds a new Cornell study published in the British Medical Journal. (July 31, 2008)
Cornell's transportation-focused Generic Environmental Impact Statement explores hypothetical transportation-related effects of population growth in the Ithaca area. (July 30, 2008)
Mannix, professor of management at the Johnson School and director of the Institute for the Social Sciences, has been named vice provost for equity and inclusion, effective July 15. (July 29, 2008)
Children from the Onondaga Nation took a tour of Cornell's Dairy Plant, July 24. Their visit was an extension of an after-school science program run by Professor Carl Batt. (July 29, 2008)
Learn how animals mate, communicate, feed and prey by attending the 12th International Behavioral Ecology Congress, Aug. 10-14, at Cornell. (July 29, 2008)
Chemist Richard Durst has been elected president of the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry, as well as having received two other recent honors. (July 29, 2008)
The program brings 50 low-income high school freshmen and sophomores students from the region to campus for six weeks in the summer to help them prepare for college. (July 28, 2008)
Children, especially low-income and minority children, are hurt by the effects of chaos at home, triggered by divorce, remarriage and the fast pace of modern life, said researchers at a videoconference. (July 28, 2008)
Students in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management can now tailor their education to the career path that interests them, rather than choosing courses from a single concentration area. (July 28, 2008)
Frank Schroeder and colleagues have uncovered a class of molecules in worms that attract mates and arrest development for months in larvae. The results of the study were published in Nature.
