Women make up the majority - 52.7 percent - of Cornell's incoming Class of 2016, a diverse group of 3,270 freshmen coming from 47 states and 46 countries. (Aug. 14, 2012)
Pilar ParraImmigrants often find it difficult to find transportation because cars are expensive and drivers' licenses cannot be obtained without immigration documents. Taxi services have been organized by immigrants in some of…
ACT for Youth views young people as resources to be nurtured, rather than problems to be fixed.
An innovative Cornell project, ACT (Assets Coming Together) builds community partnerships to promote adolescent health and well-being…
Staff member Mar Perez describes how her and her family's loss of most of their material possessions led her to value people and gave her the guiding lights of her life: her parents' courage, faith and hope.
Teens in violent dating relationships are more than twice as likely to repeat such relationships in adulthood and face a greater risk of substance abuse and depression, suggests a new Cornell study. (Dec. 10, 2012)
In his first Cornell Commencement address Sunday, May 27, before 6,000 graduates, President David Skorton, called for a new type of Marshall Plan 'to reduce inequalities that put members of your generation in danger.' (May 27, 2007)
Surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center are the first in the New York City metropolitan area to successfully implant into the brain arteries a new stent specifically designed to treat high-risk stroke patients.
John Abowd, the Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Economics, will receive the Roger Herriot Award from the American Statistical Association in August for his work with federal data.
The 57th Annual Service Recognition Dinner was held March 28 at Newman Arena in Bartels Hall, celebrating staff members with 25, 30, 35, 40 or more years of service to Cornell. (April 5, 2012)