Cornell is putting more than 1,500 volumes -- more than 600,000 pages -- in an online archive documenting the history of home economics, thanks to a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Cornell University Library is among several large academic research libraries that now operate their own publishing offices to produce high-quality scholarly publications, either by working with local researchers or by partnering with other publishers. (November 17, 2005)
The library needs an upgrade to meet the scholarship demands of a modern university and to resolve serious life-safety and environmental problems. If the plan is approved, work tentatively could start in two years. (March 14, 2007)
Steven Strogatz, professor of theoretical and applied mechanics at Cornell University, describes the Millennium Bridge's notorious opening-day oscillations in the Nov. 3 issue of Nature. (November 2, 2005)
Societal changes are inextricably linked to changes in women's roles and status. And throughout March, Cornell will host a series of programs that explore these linkages - particularly in terms of what they tell us about notions of "family values," that loaded expression that has been a rallying cry of political conservatives.
Cornell University Provost Biddy Martin and Vice President for Student and Academic Services Susan Murphy have established a campuswide Council on Mental Health and Welfare, an initiative aimed at bringing broad-based and sustained attention to the mental health of Cornell students. "Information from a variety of sources, nationally and here at Cornell, indicates that the number of students experiencing mental health problems has increased significantly over the past decade," says Murphy, who chairs the council. "We are concerned by this trend and are committed to being proactive at Cornell in our efforts to understand and address it." (April 15, 2004)
Debora Kuller Shuger, professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles, will visit Cornell in April to deliver a lecture titled "Glutinous Gums and the Stream of Consciousness: The Theology of Milton's Comus."
George Washington slept here? Perhaps. Students in Cornell's Historic Preservation Seminar are scouring the hills and valleys of the Town of Ithaca in search of historic and architecturally significant homes and buildings.
The unique Cornell-affiliated Agroforestry Resource Center in the Hudson Valley teaches the region's forest owners how to reap extra cash from their land without necessarily having to cut trees down.