The showcase exhibiting eight brains from Cornell's Wilder Brain Collection on the second floor of Uris Hall has been redesigned, restaged and relighted, thanks to the volunteer efforts of two undergraduate students, Bernadette…
If there is a perfect day for donning a giant black wig, racing your friends down a hill on giant bouncy balls, having your roommate shave your head in a reverse Mohawk, strolling along Ho Plaza with a red foam finger on one hand…
On May 1 the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Holmes v. South Carolina, endorsing the arguments made by John Blume, associate professor at Cornell Law School and director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, who…
A Cornell sophomore who allegedly stabbed a visiting Union College student on West Campus Feb. 18 has been indicted for a hate crime assault by a Tompkins County grand jury.
Tompkins County District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson…
Lee Charlotte Lee, 70, professor emerita of human development and of Asian-American studies at Cornell University, died unexpectedly April 30 at her home.
The first woman professor of Asian ancestry at Cornell, Lee was an expert…
The National Agricultural Biotechnology Council (NABC) will hold its 18th annual meeting at Cornell, on the Ithaca and Geneva campuses, June 12-14.
The meeting, "Agricultural Biotechnology: Economic Development Through New…
Cornell's advanced degree program in biological sciences has risen significantly in rankings by U.S. News and World Report in its "America's Best Graduate Schools 2007" annual report, released April 14.
The report placed Cornell…
Cornell's advanced degree program in biological sciences jumped from 14th in the nation to seventh in U.S. News and World Report's 'America's Best Graduate Schools 2007' annual report. (May 4, 2006)
Do the humanities have to be useful? As you might expect, Cornell faculty members and students can concoct a wide range of creative responses to a question like that.
Eighteen essays about the humanities have been published in a…
Millions of bytes of data now streaming to Cornell from the massive Internet Archive will give social and information scientists an unprecedented playing field for research into social networks, sociology department chair Michael…
Betty Friedan's life and Cornell connection celebrated. The occasion for these tributes was the celebration of Friedan's life, April 24 at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). Sponsored by the Provost's Office, the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) program and the ILR School.
NEW YORK -- To shut one's eyes was to be transported back to a dark table in a corner of the El Morocco nightclub during the late 1930s. The mournful yet soaring opening of "Rhapsody in Blue," played by jazz virtuoso Al Gallodoro…
