Charles D. Cramton, assistant dean for graduate legal studies at Cornell Law School since 2000, was recently appointed to a special committee taking a comprehensive look at the current New York state bar examination. The committee is charged with determining the bar exam's effectiveness in measuring professional competence and the exam's effect on law school curricula and on diversity in the judiciary and the bar.
Imagine yourself still a child, digging in the sand, and your shovel strikes something hard. You dig further to find the obstruction is not an average stone, but a huge dinosaur tooth. A moment later, you dig out a large claw. An event like this could happen at the Paleontological Research Institution Museum of the Earth's new exhibit that gives children the experience of a paleontological dig.
A week of events starting Sept. 26 will mark the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Open Doors, Open Hearts and Open Minds statement on diversity, tolerance and inclusiveness at Cornell.
A large collection of yellowing newsprint documenting Vietnam's war era is being archived for posterity, thanks to cooperative microfilming projects undertaken by Cornell University's Kroch Library and other institutions. (June 20, 2005)
On the phone in her office on the fifth floor of Bradfield Hall on the Cornell University campus, wearing a print blouse patterned with leaves, plant geneticist Elizabeth Earle finished up her third press interview of the day. "That was the Associated Press," she said, hanging up the phone. But this was not her first 15 minutes of fame.
Researchers have known for some time that violent adolescents tend to become more depressed over time than other adolescents. And young people living in violent neighborhoods also are more subject to depression. But violent adolescent boys who also live in unsafe neighborhoods where they witness violent acts do not appear to get as depressed, according to a new Cornell study.
Living with neighbors takes on a whole new meaning when the neighbor is a black bear that wanders over uninvited for dinner and ransacks garbage cans, bird feeders and pet food dishes from decks and yards.
The President's Council of Cornell Women, an alumnae group that serves as an advisory council to Cornell University's president, has awarded its 2005 research grants to three women faculty members.
Genetically modified crops containing two insecticidal proteins in a single plant efficiently kill insects. But when crops engineered with just one of those toxins grow nearby, insects may more rapidly develop resistance to all the insect-killing plants.
The Cornell's Board of Trustees today unanimously approved the appointment of Hunter R. Rawlings III as interim president of the university at its meeting in New York City.
Birdwatchers can now report possible sightings of the recently rediscovered ivory-billed woodpecker on a Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology Web site: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/story17.htm. Birders can also request a reporting form by calling the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at (800) 843-2473.
