Jessica Weeks, assistant professor of government, won a Junior Faculty Research Grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation for her book project 'Dictators at War.' (Nov. 30, 2010)
Eleven students from the Global Citizenship course in the College of Human Ecology traveled to Cuba over spring break to learn about fashion trends and consumer culture on the island.
"Blacks and Jews in America: A Conversation" will be held April 18 at 5 p.m. in Milstein Hall auditorium, with the Rev. Kenneth Clarke and professor Ross Brann.
Two graduating seniors with records of excellence in undergraduate research, athletics and community service, Samantha Olyha and Emily Shearer, are heading to Oxford as Cornell’s 2014 Marshall Scholarship recipients.
Alumni recently elected Gregory Galvin, M.S. '82, Ph.D. '84, MBA '93, and Rana Glasgal '87, M.Eng. '92, as alumni trustees. Their terms will begin July 1. (April 11, 2011)
Parents in New York state are provided with a minimum standard of quality by child-care facilities that are licensed or registered. Now, parents in five counties can choose from Child Care Programs of Excellence that have met quality criteria above and beyond state regulatory requirements. The new designation is provided by a Cornell University-New York State Child Care Coordinating Council pilot project. (February 05, 2003)
Events this week include physicist Kathy Selby at the Light in Winter Festival, old-time duo The Pearly Snaps, William Finn's musical 'Elegies' and fiction writer Edwidge Danticat.
To protect wheat for bread and barley for beer, Cornell plant pathologists have identified a disease component that afflicts these crops but is immune to a key fungicide.