Events on campus this week include an architecture roadshow; the Alloy Orchestra scoring three silent films; a roundtable on Ebola's impact on Africa; and international readings on World War I.
Cornell commuters now have another way to save on their daily transportation costs - VanPool. A drop-in information session on this new service will be held Oct. 21. (Oct. 14, 2009)
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)
Signaling one way the university will streamline its operations, the Division of Alumni Affairs and Development is insourcing its communications to the Division of University Communications. (Aug. 25, 2010)
A new effort on campus aims to coordinate collaboration among researchers interested in a Sustainable Land Management group that would foster a 'brown revolution' to improve soil health worldwide.
At a recent health policy roundtable at Weill Cornell Medical College, President David Skorton stressed the need for Cornell campuses to work on universal health insurance for New Yorkers. (March 15, 2007)
Research by economists Marco Battaglini and Eleonora Patacchini show that even the amount of campaign contributions received by legislators is linked to their social networks in Congress.
Cornell will lead a five-year, $5 million project sponsored by the National Science Foundation to build a cloud computing resource for academic research.
'ShakesQueer' arrives at Cornell Sept. 26-27 to convince us that the Bard is queerer than we thought, says Professor Ellis Hanson in a Cornell Perspectives piece. (Sept. 25, 2008)
Éva Tardos, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science, has received the Van Wijngaarden Award for her 'exceptional contribution to mathematics and computer science.' (April 20, 2011)