For winter-weary northerners who can't get away, Cornell Plantations' annual orchid display in the Class of 1952 Solarium at Cornell offers a colorful and fragrant "visit" to the tropics.
The committee for the 1998 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is calling for proposals from local community organizations and agencies. Proposals are due by April 15.
How much children learn in school depends in good measure on the attitudes and values of the surrounding community -- and on how much those values are shared by the children themselves -- education experts agreed at a symposium at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia.
Kids understand the smartest things even before they can say the words, according to a Cornell psycholinguist. Her studies of American and Chinese children provide new compelling evidence that human babies are born to grasp the complex rules of word order and sentence structure in any language.
Women have made "substantial progress" in gender equality over the past 25 years, increasing their presence in the labor market and narrowing the wage gap with men.
Former death row inmate Rolando Cruz has rescheduled his appearance at the Cornell Law School for Thursday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m. in Room G90 of Myron Taylor Hall.
Cornell Police investigators are asking members of the campus community, especially those who park in lots on the east end of campus, for help in tracking down a person who has been placing malicious messages on cars.
Efforts to tap the botanical wisdom of the rain forest – its people, plants and animals – are producing such encouraging results that researchers, who call themselves bioprospectors, are ready to take the next step.
At 10 a.m. Friday, March 13, 1998, Cornell University Provost Don Randel was scheduled to ascend to the top of the library tower to take a sample of the famous pumpkin. At 9:18 a.m. workmen testing the crane accidentally bumped the pumpkin and knocked it off the spire.
A more positive relationship between a franchisee and the hotel parent company can lead to better occupancy rates and happier customers -- not to mention increased profits. That's according to a new study by Cornell's School of Hotel Administration.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service has awarded a Cornell entomologist a $50,000 grant to help eradicate the Asian long-horned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis).
