The board of directors of the Fair Labor Association (FLA), which works to improve workplace conditions in factories around the world, recently took action to increase university participation on the board, increase participation by licensees and expand the FLA monitoring program to include additional products.
Yao Yuan Sze, a retired Seattle aerospace engineer, has endowed the directorship of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell in honor of his father.
A mystery that has puzzled evolutionary biologists for years -- why some animals postpone breeding in order to stay home and help their families -- may actually make good evolutionary sense.
Cornell's annual Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference will be held Tuesday, Dec. 11, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., hosted by Cornell's Department of Applied Economics and Management.
To find out how people beyond U.S. borders view the war in Afghanistan, the hunt for Osama bin Laden or the latest bioterrorist threats, open this web page.
Before Cornell Professor of Psychology James B. Maas achieved national recognition as a sleep researcher and educator, he was a parent, and he knows all about that ploy for postponing bedtime.
To address the technology and computer training needs of local nonprofits, the Cornell-Ithaca Partnership (C-IP) has partnered with United Way of Tompkins County and its 40 member organizations to form Computer Aid.
The birds could fly, but they couldn't hide for long from the thousands of volunteer bird-watchers throughout North America who reported their observations to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
An institute at Cornell is building a 'digital Earth' that will become an important resource for geoscience researchers and also will provide easy-to-use teaching tools for educators from elementary school through college.
Dr. Alfonso Torres, deputy administrator for veterinary services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, has been named director of the New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory.
'Fun From Mathematics, and Mathematics From Fun' will be the title of the 2001 Kieval lecture Nov. 9, hosted by the Department of Mathematics at Cornell.
