The traditional sounds of chimes, orchestra and chorus will accompany the pageantry surrounding inauguration ceremonies for David Skorton - as well as jazz, steel drums, Latin, klezmer and electronic music.
The Cornell community welcomed new students with a communal outdoor meal Aug. 24 on the Arts Quad.
Picnic on the Quad, a new Welcome Weekend event this year, brought hundreds of students, faculty and staff together for lunch on…
There are many fundamental differences between the common law in the United States and continental Europe's civil law. But, "the human tendency to treat foreign as different and then make the unwarranted logical jump and also…
Farah Hussain '05, a local youth and sustainability activist with a worldwide vision, believes that young people have what it takes to solve the world's most-pressing problems.
"Some people only see youths' negative attributes,"…
Joel Perlman, BFA '65, was 14 when he decided to become a sculptor. He was a scrappy scholarship kid at Fieldston School in the Bronx then, hard hit by the recent, sudden death of his father from a heart attack at 47.
To help…
Cornell University's Department of Food Science has selected Crowley Foods of Albany as the processor of the highest quality milk in New York for 2006.
The selection is part of the New York State Milk Quality Improvement Program,…
The setting is the same as it has been for more than 1,200 Sundays -- a modest stage, some microphones, coffee brewing nearby and a small, engaged audience.
WVBR's "Bound For Glory," a beacon for folk-music lovers, is celebrating…
Sandip Tiwari, the Charles N. Mellowes Professor in Engineering and director of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), has been named the recipient of the 2007 Cledo Brunetti Award from the IEEE.
The IEEE …
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell professor of computer science, received the 2006 Rolf Nevanlinna Prize at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain, for his "deep, creative and insightful contributions to the…
Chang Y. "Cy" Lee, professor of food science and chair of the Department of Food Science and Technology at Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., was recently elected a fellow of the…
When the online journal Public Library of Science Medicine (PLoS Medicine) accepted a paper that provided new evidence that environmental pollutants reduce the effectiveness of childhood vaccinations, the editors turned to a…
The National Staff Development and Training Association (NSDTA) has given its Quality Award for 2006 to the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) curriculum, which is part of the Residential Child Care Project in the Family Life…
