Although it's not part of her formal job description, Debra Gillers, associate dean for academic affairs at Weill Cornell Medical College, saw a need to create the Humanities in Medicine program. "Our students are mostly in their…
He braves crocs in the Amazon to find the real Temple of Doom. He dives Alexandria Harbor seeking Cleopatra's palace. Using Homer as a guide, he sails the Aegean Sea in Odysseus' wake.
Two Cornell University alumni were picked to manage prominent sports teams recently.
Bryan Colangelo '87 was chosen as president and general manager of the Toronto Raptors this March. The team, currently fourth in the Atlantic…
NEW YORK -- During February, Cornellians in New York City participated in the Westminster Kennel Club (WKC) Dog Show, celebrated the Lunar Year of the Dog and learned about the incomes of the super rich.
Veterinary College…
To the editor:
A new, public open space is greatly needed to replace what was correctly described as an "eyesore" in the recent Cornell Chronicle article ("Bailey Hall pedestrian plaza plan draws praise and concern," Feb. 16)…
When the Arecibo L-Band Feed Array (ALFA) was installed on a misty April morning two years ago, it promised to bring phenomenal new sensitivity to the Arecibo Observatory.
Now, well into an ambitious series of comprehensive sky…
Cornell University and seven other colleges and universities have received grants totaling $6.78 million from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to launch programs designed to help high-achieving, low-income community college…
A new, public open space is greatly needed to replace what was correctly described as an "eyesore" in the recent Cornell Chronicle article ("Bailey Hall pedestrian plaza plan draws praise and concern," Feb. 16). Driven by…
A surgeon at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and a professor of textiles and apparel at Cornell's Ithaca campus have partnered to create a biodegradable artificial skin for burn victims.
It's not every day (surely) that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) gets startling briefings on the state of woodchuck health. Clinton was at Cornell to attend an evening meeting of the Democratic Rural Conference of New York State.
Bird experts believed for years that once a bird learned songs, the calls stayed relatively fixed throughout their lives, but a new study of loons, streamlined fish-eating water birds, calls those beliefs into question. (March 7, 2006)
The Cornell campus hosts a group of serious critical thinkers each summer at the School of Criticism and Theory (SCT) during an intensive six-week seminar that returns for its 30th session.
