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Book by Cornell food-concepts expert shows how to bring specialty food products to market

If you have ever entertained the idea of bottling, branding and selling your special sauce, salsa, spice blend or salad dressing, a new book by Barbara Lang, director of restaurants and food concepts at Cornell's Statler Hotel,…

A webcam named desire: Ellis Hanson surveys the 'moral panic' around the new virtual sexual revolution

According to Ellis Hanson, around 1994 we were transformed into cybersexuals. The transformation was brought about by the explosion of digital technology, most significantly by the webcam, with its ability to transmit and receive…

Torture can never be defended as a military necessity, asserts Harvard professor and Iraq war critic Elaine Scarry

What can law students learn from a Harvard University literary critic about the moral legality of questionable detention practices in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo? Quite a lot, if she's Elaine Scarry, an outspoken critic of…

Cornell students awarded prestigious fellowships for study in Germany

Six Cornell students will spend the 2007-08 academic year studying in Germany as the result of winning DAAD grants and Cornell/Heidelberg Exchange Fellowships. (April 17, 2007)

Liberals? 'The enemy,' 'treasonous' and 'children' -- conservative Ann Coulter blasts the opposition

"Liberals have been attacking this country for 50 years. Well, now it's time we hit back and hit back hard," exclaimed conservative columnist and pundit Ann Coulter '84 to a capacity audience in Statler Auditorium May 7. …

Jonathan Culler elected to American Philosophical Society

Jonathan Culler, the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS). He was among 49 members selected this year by APS, the oldest learned…

Cornell signs pact with Paris institution on environmental research

Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has signed a memorandum of understanding with École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris to facilitate academic exchanges and to support collaborative research activities…

In the stealth of night, EzraNet upgrades building networks

It's 3 a.m. Night blankets the slumbering campus. The silence is broken only by the plodding of the occasional weary student bound for home. Comstock and Olin halls, though, are abuzz with people drilling, driving screws,…

Garden Mosaics Kit on sale: Includes interactive DVD, poster, colorful science pages and more

Cornell University and the American Community Gardening Association are offering for sale the Garden Mosaics Kit, which includes an award-winning interactive DVD and program manual for educators, a poster and many other science…

A case for brains: Cornell's cerebral display gets refurbished home

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…

Slope Day 2006: 'It's all downhill from here'

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…

Supreme Court unanimously backs Cornell Law Professor John Blume's argument in death penalty case

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…