Some 250 hours of fragile audio material from Cornell’s ILR School from 1953 to 1978 will be available to the public soon, thanks to a grant from the New York State Library.
McNair scholars from Cornell and Upward Bound students visited the Capitol Hill offices of lawmakers from eight states to advocate for the educational access programs.
To determine effective tobacco warning labels, five Cornell faculty members will receive a five-year, $3 million federal grant to examine how anti-smoking messages can affect youth, and low-income and low-education groups.
The syllabus for a social entrepreneurship course, taught by Anke Wessels of the Center for Transformative Action at Cornell, has won an award from Ashoka, a global group of social entrepreneurs. (Feb. 28, 2011)
Senior extension associate Keith Tidball, an expert on disaster response and recovery, has been selected a 2014 visiting scholar by the United States Department of Agriculture.
At an expert briefing in Brussels on May 19, Cornell experts spoke about the need to plan for nuclear power plant accidents and how to compensate radiation victims.