It was called the Jazz Age and the Roaring '20s, a time when bootleggers peddled bathtub gin, flappers danced the Charleston and there was money to burn. The 1920s was a profligate postwar time rife with wild indulgence, and it…
Scientists have a long tradition of doubling as activists and advocates for a cause. Some chose their careers with that goal in mind; many more followed research paths that led them later to think about such issues as morality…
Engineers who develop microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) like to make their tiny machines out of silicon because it is cheap, plentiful and can be worked on with the tools already developed for making microelectronic circuits…
Sunny days tend to draw people outdoors, but this summer 63 undergraduates stayed inside clean rooms to learn the intricacies of nanoscale fabrication. The students, interns in the 2006 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU…
Eight weeks ago, none of the 10 students -- eight undergraduates and two on their way to graduate school, from around the United States and the Caribbean -- quite knew what they were getting into. They came to Cornell for a taste…
Scott Jaschik '85, editor of the Web-based Inside Higher Ed, gets more than 100 pitches a day for stories from colleges and universities. Yet, very few are from community colleges. He wants to change that, but not by getting…
Whenever Cornell junior Kate Allen studies seagulls at Shoals Marine Laboratory, she wears a construction hat with three dowels projecting from the top like a tall wooden mohawk. The reason: herring gulls and great black-backed…
As food manufacturers move away from expiration dates and use "best if used by" dates on foods instead, research shows that consumers turn their noses up as the "best if used by" date approaches -- and not because of the food's…
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has joined Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) and the New York Farm Bureau Foundation for Agricultural Education Inc. providing feed and cash assistance to farmers in New York who have been…
Bed and breakfast inns know that the personal touch is what sets them apart from hotels, but they may not know how to use the Internet to their best advantage.
To make sure that innkeepers have a comprehensive list of ways to…
Cornell needs you. Be part of President David Skorton's inauguration Sept. 7 by volunteering for one or more of the following posts: Faculty, student and staff regalia distribution; inaugural information center; volunteer…
The recent acquisition of a Verdi collection by the Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance is the culmination of years of support by Sidney T. Cox, B.A. '47, M.A. '48.
Cox left his personal collection of Verdi scores,…
