Pledging as a part of fraternity and sorority membership selection will be abolished at Cornell, President David Skorton has announced. In an effort to end hazing, the ban will begin during the 2012-13 academic year.
Children, rather than adults, make better witnesses of negative emotional events because of how their memory works, according to a new study. (July 20, 2010)
A new $659,529 training grant from the National Institutes of Health will focus on how genes guide development and will support three graduate students interested in this area of study.
Although Andrew Dickson White introduced a bill into the New York State Senate in 1865 to establish Cornell University and its reception was positive, its passage was by no means a sure thing. (May 22, 2007)
Cornell's Department of Food Science has selected Wendt's Dairy (Niagara Milk Cooperative) of Buffalo as the producer of the highest quality milk in New York state for 2001.
A groundbreaking June 12 celebrated the $8 million boathouse renovation and a new building for rowing, which should be completed in less than a year. (July 19, 2010)
A certain combination of AIDS drugs is superior to others when it comes to the initial treatment of HIV patients, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Cornell Police will soon be driving home an important safety message: Buckle your seat belt or get a ticket. From April 18 through April 22, Cornell Police will be bringing the fourth annual "Click It or Ticket" campaign back to campus.
Dr. David J. Skorton, president of Cornell, has been appointed to the Association of American Medical Colleges as an at-large member of its 2010-11 board of directors for a two-year term.
Cornell and a private foundation organized by the Emir of Qatar announced today (April 9, 2001) the establishment of the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.