In rural areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America, poor farmers supplement their livelihoods by hunting and cutting wood, but such practices seriously threaten biodiversity in the developing world. (Aug. 22, 2011)
Dean Michael Kotlikoff cloaked 81 newly minted veterinarians with ceremonial hoods May 23, a day before their formal recognition at Commencement. (May 23, 2009)
The College of Human Ecology graduate is coordinating a new national program, Coach for America, that will one day place thousands of trained coaches into schools, nonprofit organizations and clubs. (Dec. 4, 2008)
As part of an effort to broaden Cornell's international diversity, Lee H. Melvin, associate vice provost for enrollment, traveled to India to meet with five Tata scholars and other admitted students.
Students from a spring Gender Archaeology class joined instructors Lauren and Chris Monroe along with Israeli students and faculty at a new dig site in Israel over the summer.
On Oct. 25, former national security advisers Samuel Berger '67 and Stephen Hadley '69 discussed the challenges the next U.S. president will face in trying to reassert America's leadership in the world.
Words can be a window on the soul, and computers are learning to peer through that window. A new Cornell study shows that computer analyses can identify the speech patterns that psychopaths tend to use. (Oct. 17, 2011)
A bright office space overlooking the Arts Quad and Goldwin Smith Hall on the sixth floor of Olin Library was dedicated the Hunter R. Rawlings III Research Study March 3.