Rae McGrath emphasized the need for ordinary people to play a stronger role in prohibiting the use of indiscriminate weapons like cluster bombs and landmines. (March 13, 2008)
In the second year of the Cornell Library's Information Competency Initiative, instructors once again pair up with librarians to teach students better research skills. (June 19, 2009)
A new course on DVD featuring mathematician Steve Strogatz covers the science and math behind chaos theory, plus the historical, cultural and philosophical implications of the concept. (Nov. 6, 2008)
That best way to reduce government debt is to invest now on improvements in infrastructure, education and other major national priorities, say Cornell professors Robert Hockett and Robert Frank. (July 14, 2011)
In 1925 Cornell became the first institution of higher learning to award a doctorate in pure mathematics to an African American. But well before that, indeed, since its founding in 1865, Cornell had been pursuing cultural and intellectual variety on campus.
New research aims to create search-engine software that can learn from users by noticing which links they click and how they reformulate their queries when the first results don't pay off. (Jan. 7, 2010)
Kent L. Hubbell, the Nathaniel and Margaret Owings Professor of Architecture, has been named Cornell University's dean of students, Susan H. Murphy, vice president for student and academic services. The five-year appointment is effective July 1.
Kent L. Hubbell, the Nathaniel and Margaret Owings Professor of Architecture, has been named Cornell's dean of students, Susan H. Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, announced June 19.
'The Song of the Vowels,' cubist Jacques Lipchitz's 10-foot-tall abstract sculpture, has returned to the Cornell campus after almost two years of conservation treatment. (June 12, 2007)
Federal expenditures on cybersecurity research are 'tiny compared to the severity of the threat' and are too focused on plugging holes, Cornell computer scientist Fred Schneider told Congress June 10. (June 10, 2009)