In a commentary published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, President David Skorton calls on the higher education community to help the country solves its most pressing challenges. (Nov. 21, 2008)
New York state red wines have higher levels of resveratrol -- a naturally occurring substance in grapes that has been found to reduce the chance of heart disease and cancer -- than comparable wines from other regions of the world.
Health Awareness Week is making a grand return to Cornell University during the week of Jan. 27. The 22nd annual edition of campuswide health-related presentations and educational activities.
Just when the world's getting really confusing and you're not feeling good about yourself, when it seems nobody will listen -- or even sit when you tell them to -- along come the Cornell Companions.
The following are quotations from an address by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Cornell's Senior Convocation, held from noon to 1 p.m. on May 25 in Barton Hall.
Fred Rhoades has been driving buses – all kinds of buses, from school and senior citizens' buses to charter coaches – for more than 35 years. But according to Rhoades, the Prevost motor coaches that run eight times a week on Cornell's Campus-to-Campus express charter service beat them all – at least, based on comfort and passenger response from students, faculty, staff and alumni.
Cornell, with support from the Foundation for Prevention and Early Resolution of Conflict, plans to establish an institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations for the study of conflict resolution. The institute is expected to open in August 1996.
Walter LaFeber is a historian who relishes being one of the "old school" types with a sense of humor, a warmth and wisdom grounded in the fundamentals that come from cultivating a long view, whether it be in foreign relations history or baseball. And oh my, are we going to miss him.
Scientists hoping to produce super-tough, bio-inspired fibers are a step closer with a new model for the molecular arrangement of spider silk, proposed by Cornell University researchers in the Jan. 5 issue of the journal Science.
Witness, a Grammy-nominated singing quartet, will headline the 21st Annual Festival of Black Gospel at Cornell, Feb. 21 to 23. The festival is the centerpiece of the university's Black History Month celebration.