Women's History Month is being celebrated at Cornell during March with a series of lectures, performances, seminars, readings, conferences and round-table discussions.
The Truest Pleasure reads as naturally as if it were an autobiography. 'Like a fireside chat,' writes one reviewer in Southern Living magazine. But it took six manuscripts to get it right, says award-winning poet and novelist Robert Morgan of his latest work.
Mothers looking for employment face disadvantages - including being less likely to be hired, being offered lower salaries and facing a perception that they would be less committed to a job - than fathers or women without children, according to an experiment conducted by researchers at Cornell.
Rising prices at gas pumps are a reminder that the world's supply of fossil fuels is shrinking and may be depleted by as soon as the year 2025, said presenters at an international conference on sustainable technology and new-market creation held at Cornell July 20-22.
Hundreds of members of the Board of Trustees and University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 24, for Cornell University's annual Trustee/Council Weekend.
While flag burning, bra burning and Robert Mapplethorpe's racy photographs have tested the limits of free speech over the past few decades, a Cornell Law School professor applauds these active demonstrations of dissent.
William Sanders, who is honored April 15, as Cornell's 1999 Entrepreneur of the Year for his accomplishments. Sanders also will deliver the Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year address Friday, April 16, at 2:30 p.m. in Sage Hall, Room B-08.
Preventing insurance and telephone fraud, learning which state agencies and legislative committees do what in serving consumers and better understanding consumer legislation and regulatory processes and policies in New York will be the focus of a free workshop, Making and Enforcing Consumer Policy, on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 16-17, at the Empire State Plaza in Albany.
Cornell announced Sept. 22 that the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education has closed its investigation of a complaint alleging that the University maintains racially- and ethnically-segregated residence halls.
Christine A. Shoemaker, professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Thomas D. Seeley, professor of neurobiology and behavior, at Cornell University have received Alexander von Humboldt Research Awards.