From setting up websites in elementary schools to assessing the affordability of quality day care to presenting a theater project on a Native American reservation, Cornell University faculty members will learn about creative approaches to service learning.
On Jan. 25, students will come together for Global Seminar ALS 480, a spring semester course that examines international food issues and formulates positions on worldwide agricultural sustainability.
Is the United States too "economically correct?" In other words, do Americans adhere too rigidly to policies like deregulation, privatization and cutbacks in the public sphere and to a belief that the free market is the cure for all of society's ills?
After more than two years in space, NASA's Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) has provided radio astronomers with one definite conclusion about the clouds of gas and dust that make up the bulk of the mass in our galaxy, the Milky Way.
Cornell's Utilities Department has won the 2001 New York Governor's Award for Pollution Prevention in the institutional/educational category for the university's Lake Source Cooling (LSC) project.
Applying the 'polluter pays' principle, a Cornell ecologist and author suggests a way to improve the environmental sustainability of agriculture: Levy taxes according to food-chain ranking so that products with the worst environmental impact cost the most.
Peter K. Mangurian, the head football coach at Cornell University for the past three seasons, has been named the new offensive line coach for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League.
When a survey of female Cornell University students revealed their preferences in formal evening gowns, three Cornell textile and apparel students set out to grant their wishes.
In post-socialist Eastern Europe, tension has been high between national and ethnic minorities. To avoid these kinds of strains, Hungary passed Act 77, a progressive Law on National and Ethnic Minorities in 1993.
In his Annual Message to the Legislature, delivered this afternoon in Albany, New York Gov. George E. Pataki announced the outline of a new $1 billion high-technology initiative fund that would include an initial $250 million in state support.
Is abstinence-only sex education unconstitutional? Yes, say a Cornell Law School professor and a Washington, D.C., attorney, because it has the purpose and effect of endorsing a religious agenda.
