For generations the United States welcomed immigrants who were primarily white Europeans. But immigrants from Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean over recent decades have been largely nonwhites from developing countries.
Punk, goth, hippie, neohippie, hip hop and hipster are just a few types of street fashion that Cornell researchers are taking seriously. A new exhibit, "Street Fashion and Youth Subculture: An Ethnographic Costume Exhibition,"…
What constitutes a family? How should children be raised and educated? Who is allowed to marry, and what are permissible grounds for divorce? A new Cornell Law School project grapples daily with thorny questions on gender, sexuality, family and the law.
Scholars from East China Normal University and Cornell addressed postcolonial legacies, memorial responsibilities, future memory, social memory, televisual time, and memory and reason.
The Arecibo Observatory has captured one of the most fleeting, mysterious and rare deep-space events – a so-called “fast radio burst” that lasted a mere three one-thousandths of a second, report Cornell astronomers July 10.
Lawyer Kristan Peters-Hamlin '82 has established the Kristan Peters-Hamlin Chair's Fund for Women's Civil Rights in the Middle East in Cornell's Department of Near Eastern Studies. (March 10, 2010)
President David Skorton thanked employees for 'staying the course' and continuing to accomplish goals despite a smaller workforce in his annual talk sponsored by the Employee Assembly. (Oct. 13, 2009)
Cathy A. Enz, the Lewis G. Schaeneman Jr. Professor of Innovation and Dynamic Management at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, has been appointed associate dean for industry research and affairs at the Hotel School. In…