NASA and the State of New York will jointly fund a three-year program at Syracuse and Cornell universities to develop a virtual learning environment that uses advanced information technologies.
One of the hidden costs of welfare reform, both at the federal and state levels, is addressed by a new study at Cornell University. It finds that the marginally employed are almost four times more likely to be violent with their families than workers not on welfare.
The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc. (BTI) has named plant molecular biologist David B. Stern as vice president for research. Stern succeeds Stephen H. Howell, who has accepted the directorship of the Plant Science Institute at Iowa State University.
Thanks to the early March nor'easter that has dumped more than 17 inches of snow on the city of salt, this has become the second snowiest season ever for Syracuse, N.Y. In fact, Syracuse is the snowiest city in the Northeast, according to climatologists at Northeast Regional Climate Center.
Novelist and visiting professor Richard Price will read from a work-in-progress Monday, March 12, at 4:30 p.m. in the A.D. White House on the Cornell University campus.
Chemical signals at the most critical moment for new life in mammals – when sperm meets egg and attempts fertilization – evolve rapidly in a process driven by positive Darwinian selection, according to a Cornell study.
What are the strengths and weaknesses of new theoretical models of governance? How do these new models affect our assessment of administrative and structural constitutional issues?
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca March 8 and 9. The board will meet from 9 to 11:45 a.m. and again from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 9, in the Trustee Meeting Room of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell campus. The morning session will be open to the public from 9 to approximately 10 a.m. Topics will include a report from President Hunter Rawlings; a report on the Student Assembly, by assembly president Uzo Asonye, a junior; a report on the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, by assembly president Patrick Carr; and an update on the state budget, including proposed statutory college tuition.
A Cornell University student has been hospitalized with probable meningococcal meningitis. The student, a 19-year-old male freshman, was examined March 1 by physicians at Gannett: Cornell University Health Services. He was transferred immediately to Cayuga Medical Center, where he remains in intensive care.
Most people are better judges of other people's moral character than they are of their own. Experiments conducted at Cornell and reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found many people making an error in self-assessment.
