Like a personal ad proclaiming: "Tall, good looking, disease-free," brightly colored male animals are advertising something of importance to their prospective mates. Should the female assume the gaudiest male has parasite-resistance genes that will benefit her offspring?
Cornell officials have announced two key staff appointments: Lynette Chappell-Williams has been named director of the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO), and Mary Beth Grant has been named judicial administrator (JA).
Nominees for the 1996 Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony are now being accepted by the Dean of Students Office at Cornell. The $5,000 annual prize was established last year by Trustee Thomas W. Jones and was presented at an award ceremony in the A.D. White House on Thursday, May 4.
In an unusual collaboration among scientists and humanists, a Cornell team has demonstrated a novel method for recovering faded text on ancient stone by zapping and mapping 2,000-year-old inscriptions using X-ray fluorescence imaging.
A patch of land once hidden among the trees on Cornell's West Campus will become a 176-space parking lot this fall -- the culmination of years of efforts by Cornell administration to provide adequate parking for the West Campus Residential Initiative.
The state of New York, through its New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research, has awarded Cornell University $2.8 million over two years to establish a new Center for Advanced Technology.
New York state voters are increasingly frustrated by gridlock in the two houses of the state legislature, an impasse that results in delayed legislation, late budgets and a seemingly never-ending refrain of raucous debate and recrimination. Is it time to change the whole system?
Cornell and a private foundation organized by the Emir of Qatar announced today (April 9, 2001) the establishment of the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.
Virtually hairless, venerably wrinkled and very nearly blind, naked mole-rats - those homely rodents from underground Africa - remind some zoo-goers of little old men.
The Cornell lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is planning a broad range of cultural and educational programs throughout 'Gaypril.'