A film by sculptor Joanna Malinowska, showing virtually at the Hirshhorn Museum through Nov. 30, investigates the unusual, unexpected and sometimes bizarre ways in which people interpret their histories and construct identities.
Coyotes, wolves and foxes are getting bolder in the Northeast, and Cornell Cooperative Extension is offering a free video-linked workshop on how to cope with wild canines, Jan. 19. (Jan. 4, 2008)
Unrelated people who are more similar genetically tend to have more similar attitudes and preferences, reports a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (May 30, 2012)
W. Keith Kennedy, provost emeritus, professor emeritus at Cornell and former dean of Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, died Feb. 18 at age 92. (Feb. 21, 2011)
Robert J. Sternberg, an intelligence expert, will receive the 2017 William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science. The award honors his lifetime of outstanding intellectual contributions to psychology.
Sabre, a rescued black Labrador retriever who served as Cornell's first police dog and helped safeguard such notables as former President Bill Clinton and the Dalai Lama, died Jan. 5 at age 12. (Jan. 10, 2012)
Cornell Professors Itai Cohen, physics, and Bruce Lewenstein, science communication, discussed the excitement and challenges of the future of nanotechnology at the Science Cabaret downtown. (Sept. 16, 2011)
Occasional smoking, and even second-hand smoke, create biological changes that may increase the risks of lung disease and cancer, according to a new study Cornell scientists in Ithaca and at Weill Cornell. (Aug. 26, 2010)
A new Leading Change workshop gives Cornell leaders work-planning tools to use when the number of staff members in their department has been reduced or their workload or priorities increased. (May 6, 2010)
The planet can vibrate like a bell within periods of a few hours, and these oscillations cause gravitational tugs that in turn create the spiral patterns in Saturn's rings, Cornell astronomers said.