Two hundred years after the essay that put "Malthusian" in the lexicon, the consequences of overpopulation are more dire than ever, warns Cornell anthropologist David Price.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- New empirical studies on racial discrimination and the influencing of juries related to capital sentencing will be presented at a symposium on the death penalty Saturday, March 28, at Cornell University. The symposium, "How the Death Penalty Works: Empirical Studies of the Modern Capital Sentencing System," sponsored by the Cornell Law Review and the Cornell Death Penalty Project, will bring to campus more than a dozen leading legal scholars, some of whom have represented death-row inmates in postconviction appeals, to address and present new research on capital punishment issues.
Ten million Americans, including almost 4 million children, don't get enough to eat, according to a new study from Cornell University and the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Daniel Libeskind, an influential architectural educator, theoretician and practitioner from Berlin, will deliver the 1998 Preston H. Thomas Lectures April 1 and 2.
"Ammonsfest," a celebration of the life and work of acclaimed poet A.R. Ammons, Cornell's Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry, will be held on the Cornell campus April 3 and 4.
In the memorably hot summer of 1988 in Newton, Mass., Jack Connor murdered his mother, father and grandmother. He left their corpses in the family home for a week, their lifeless faces covered with his grandmother's underwear, rosary beads in their hands.
Professor Fatou Sow, chair of the Department of Social Sciences of the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire at UniversitŽ Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal, will give a University Lecture on "Challenging the State: Women's Rights and the Future of Africa," April 4.
Ten major labor unions will recruit on the Cornell campus for the first time as part of Union Day '98, April 2, sponsored by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Representatives will meet with interested students to talk about career opportunities at the various unions.
As electronic devices grow ever smaller, single molecules could one day become components of electronic circuits or even moving parts of tiny machines. Cornell researchers have now demonstrated one way this could be done, by isolating a single oxygen molecule and causing it to rotate on command.
In a close race with substantially lower voter turnout than five years ago, J. Robert Cooke, Cornell professor of agricultural and biological engineering, was elected dean of the Cornell faculty. Cooke, elected to a three-year term, takes office July 1.
The clash of two armies at a place that one side called Bull Run and the other Manassas was supposed to end a war before it began. But when the battle was over, 900 soldiers lay dead on the fields of Virginia, and a man on a mission of mercy from Ithaca, who four years later would found a great university, was running for his life.
