The safety, rights and privacy of Cornell University-area students living off campus will be the major topic of discussion Sept. 8 at the Collegetown Neighborhood Council (CNC) meeting.
A new policy paper, 'Dismantling the Poverty Trap: Disability Policy for the 21st Century,' by Cornell experts spells out how current policies force those with disabilities into poverty, whether they work or not, and offers reform recommendations.
Cornell Interim President Hunter R. Rawlings and Dean of the Faculty Charles Walcott addressed the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Faculty Committee on Environmental Sustainability and Transportation and Parking Needs.
Music professor and internationally famed pianist Malcolm Bilson's life and career will be celebrated in October, with a festival of early piano music concerts, a banquet and an international symposium.
A former Cornell graduate student's documentary film of an impoverished Brooklyn family is the catalyst for a symposium addressing societal, legal, cultural and clinical issues affecting millions of Americans daily.
The ingredients: several dozen yards of yellow 'caution' tape, 800 first-year students and a bullhorn. The result: the official photo for the Class of 2009, with students spelling out the year '2009' across Libe Slope.
Shimon Edelman of Cornell and colleagues have developed a method for enabling a computer program to scan text, infer the grammar behind it and generate new sentences.
Anthropology professor Rebekah Nathan enrolled as a freshman at her own university, immersing herself in student life. The resulting book, 'My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student.'
Robin Hadlock Seeley, a Cornell marine biologist, spearheaded an invasive species survey of Cobscook Bay, Maine, that has discovered a sea squirt there that could potentially threaten the important fishing area.
Nell I. Mondy, 83, professor emerita of nutritional sciences at Cornell, died Aug. 25 at Cayuga Medical Center. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m., Sept. 17, at the First Baptist Church.
Hurricane Katrina promises to bring winds -- and rains -- of change to much of New York State early this week. The storm should help convert one of central New York's driest months on record.
