On April 15, a workshop for nonprofit groups organized by Michelle M. Thompson, a visiting lecturer in Cornell's Department of City and Regional Planning, took place at Albert R. Mann Library.
Without enough estrogen-like hormone in their systems, female plainfin midshipman fish turn a deaf ear to the alluring love songs of the males. And, according to Cornell biologists, a similar steroid-sensitive response could underlie changes in the hearing sensitivity of humans.
On Monday morning, July 10, David Skorton's Day Hall office was nearly bare: clean white walls, empty bookshelves, subdued olive and beige furniture and the light smell of fresh paint. Just a few personal touches had crept in --…
Exhibition of political Americana opens in Cornell's Kroch Library 'VOTE!' in time for 2000 election. The exhibition of campaign memorabilia from the Susan Havey Douglas Collection of Political Americana.
Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies, formerly Women's Studies, has expanded over four decades to encompass the breadth of academic discourse in such areas as gender and queer studies.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed Cornell's management contract for the operation of Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest and most-sensitive single-dish radio/radar telescope.
Cornell Political Forum, a non-partisan political magazine published by undergraduate students, has received a national award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
Neil Gershenfeld, director of the Physics and Media Group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab and co-director of the Things That Think research consortium, will speak on "Things That Think" at noon, Oct 20. The event is the first in a new distinguished lecturer series sponsored by the Cornell Faculty of Computing and Information.
The discussions about race, ethnicity, religion and sexuality are tough, really tough for the students in the College of Human Ecology's Urban Semester program. Small wonder.
Consider that the undergraduates in Urban Semester are…