Nine students from the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa, will visit Cornell Sept. 26 to Oct. 6 to get a taste of life on an American campus. (Sept. 22, 2010)
Cornell's Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management will celebrate its recent naming gift with two panel discussions Oct. 1 in Kennedy Hall's Call Alumni Auditorium. (Sept. 22, 2010)
The American Physical Society has recognized Chris Henley and James Sethna, both professors of physics, as 'outstanding referees' of peer-reviewed research. (March 6, 2012)
Eight teams of entrepreneurs are spending their summer developing their business ideas into products at Rev: Ithaca Startup Works' Hardware Accelerator.
Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections exhibition "Gods and Scholars: Studying Religion at a Secular University" runs through March 7 in Kroch Library.
According to a recent poll from Cornell, nearly half of New Yorkers support stem cell research and would approve a proposition to establish a state-funded institute dedicated to this emerging field of science.
New York, NY (September 9, 2004) -- For years, experts have puzzled over the fact that lupus patients often experience accelerated declines in thinking and memory as they age, despite the absence of the usual neurological culprits, such as neurovascular inflammation or stroke.Now a husband-and-wife team of researchers, including Dr. Bruce T. Volpe, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York and Attending Neurologist at New-York Presbyterian Hospital and Burke Medical Research Institute in White Plains, say they have a new approach to this puzzle that may open the door to treatments that slow or prevent lupus-related cognitive decline.
Cornell sociologists Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg have co-edited a new book, 'The Economic Sociology of Capitalism' (Princeton University Press 2005). The book explores capitalism from a social science perspective.
Jeffrey Vogt of the International Trade Union Confederation spoke on campus March 17 about the domestic and international status of the trade union movement at the ILR School's Union Days.