Cornell's Summer College -- one of the nation's first summer programs for high school students -- is offering full scholarships for students from high schools in Tompkins County. A special fund has been established to provide two full scholarships a year for the next five years.
Cornell officials have unveiled a new strategic plan aimed at strengthening the Greek system and helping to integrate fraternity and sorority residential life with the undergraduate educational experience.
When the National Geographic Society's hunt for living giant squid sends sperm whales with video cameras to the ocean depths this month off New Zealand's South Island, the "camerawhales" will be tracked by the Cornell Bioacoustics Research program.
California, Chinese and Mediterranean cuisine will tempt the palates of patrons attending this year's Guest Chef Series, sponsored by Cornell's School of Hotel Administration.
Leonard Good, executive director of the World Bank, will give a lecture at Cornell titled "International Development and the World Bank in the 21st Century" on Friday, Feb. 21, at 3:30 p.m. in the Guerlac Room of the A.D. White House.
On the heels of the drought of 1995 and the blizzard and deluge of 1996, the year 1997 is starting out normal for both precipitation and temperature, according to climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
SEATTLE -- You know those squishy childrenÕs toys with elasticized bands connecting sticks that bounce back to shape when crushed? It takes some complicated mathematics to figure out how to make such structures. "You need a calculation that will guarantee the stability of the structure," said Robert Connelly, professor and chair of Cornell UniversityÕs mathematics department. "You can find a whole class of these things. If you satisfy the stability condition, then you can build it, and it will always hold its shape." The structures are called tensegrities -- for tension with integrity -- that form interesting geometric shapes, like dodecahedra (made from 12 regular pentagons). Connelly, who builds such toys based on these principles, described them to an audience at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science today (Feb. 14) in Seattle.
To the legions of amateur bird-watchers making observations across North America, the National Audubon Society and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology say: Nest your birds on the Web.
Some of the same evolutionary "predispositions" that held together extended families for our hunter-gatherer ancestors -- and even prototypical nuclear families until recently -- are partly to blame for today's dysfunction, conflict and violence within fractured families, according to a Cornell.
Due to a quirk in new federal tax laws, many of the nation's dairy farmers could be milked out of millions of dollars, according to a Cornell agricultural economist.
Subsurface life on Mars probably did exist and may still exist for the same reason it exists on Earth -- both these planets and many other planetary bodies in the solar system are made of similar stuff and provide similar conditions.
Through a dense jungle of cables and a labyrinth of computer terminals in an office perched at the top of an ivy-covered law school, the Legal Information Institute at Cornell uses the World Wide Web to spread legal knowledge to county planners in rural areas.
