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Hotel Ezra Cornell offers hot tips on travel trends and pampering at the spa

"We're all about connecting theory to practice," said Michael Johnson, dean-elect of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. Giving a talk on marketing effectively in a service economy April 8 in Statler Hall's…

Migrant labor activist at ILR Union Days calls for rights for immigrant workers

Valdemar Velasquez was only 6 when he began working in the sugar beet fields of Ohio to help put food on his family's table. He knew that his Mexican-born parents wanted more for him, but as impoverished migrant farmworkers…

Ivy Native Conference hears ways to protect land, preserve tradition and fight for human rights

Carrie Dann, elder and founder of the Western Shoshone Defense Project, doesn't look like a poster child for civil disobedience. With her salt-and-pepper hair and thick glasses she hardly fits the role of a hard-nosed human…

From chic and sleek to silly wear, Cornell Design League fashion show is flesh and fable

From skimpy minis to a full line of pastel wedding gowns dubbed "dearly belovely," 150 models strutted gorgeous, bizarre and luscious outfits down the runway at the 22nd Cornell Design League fashion show, April 8 in Barton Hall…

Mounted python: Cornell gets gift of what may be world's largest snake skeleton

A 26-foot-long reticulated python bones are now assembled and elegantly framed in the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates research collection in the Imogene Powers Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity, home to Cornell's Lab of Ornithology.

Cornell's solar house is going, going ... gone! Sold to a local alum

The student-designed and -built solar house - the second-place winner in the U.S. Department of Energy's 2005 international Solar Decathlon competition - will not be leaving the area.

Do children need two parents for stability and well-being? Not necessarily, researchers conclude

Do children of cohabitating families fare worse than children in married families? Do children in stepfather families show more symptoms of depression and risk-taking behaviors than children in single-mother families?

Huge Kodak equipment donation boosts Cornell labs

Eastman Kodak has provided a windfall -- worth almost $500,000 -- for Cornell laboratories. Late last year, the Rochester, N.Y., company decided to donate a large amount of equipment and laboratory supplies to a good home. By a…

Harvey Scott McMillin Jr., professor of English, dies at 71

Harvey Scott McMillin Jr., professor of English at Cornell University, died March 29. He was 71. A member of the Cornell faculty since 1964, McMillin's areas of interest included Elizabethan and modern drama and, more recently,…

Rawlings helps celebrate Ithaca Public Education Initiative's 10th anniversary

As a teenager, Cornell University interim President Hunter Rawlings recalls he would have laughed at the thought of birding. Today he is an avid birder. "I have discovered birding in a big way," and it's "not a laughable matter…

Turkish woman relates ouster from assembly over headscarf

The first time Merve Kavakci protested the banning of Muslim headwear from Turkish schools and federal offices, she was a freshman at the University of Ankara. Years later she was ousted from the Turkish National Assembly in 1999…

Antonio M. Gotto named to new five-year term as dean of Weill Cornell Medical College

NEW YORK -- The Cornell University Board of Trustees has appointed Dr. Antonio M. Gotto Jr. to a new five-year term as the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College and provost of medical affairs of Cornell…