Events on campus this week include: Veteran's Day and Kristallnacht commemorations; comedy and dance benefits; Benefair; President's address to staff; Henry Paulson lecture. (Nov. 4, 2010)
Though promiscuity may be risky behavior for humans, it's healthy for honeybees: Queen honeybees who indulge in sexual surfeits with multiple drones produce more disease-resistant colonies than monogamous monarchs, according to a new study.
Scientists have utilized the imaging capabilities of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source to help develop enhanced light-emitting diode displays using bottom-up engineering methods. (Oct. 24, 2012)
"We have a moment. A moment to transform the situation. It is not a moment, by the way, to make peace. It is a moment to end the war," said former U.S. Ambassador Dennis B. Ross, speaking April 27 in the Statler Auditorium at Cornell as this year's Bartels World Affairs Fellow. Ross was referring to the decades-old war between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Cornell juniors Joanna Smith and Alexander Bores have been named Truman scholars by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Each will receive a $30,000 scholarship.
A dozen Cornell students took a break from studying for finals and writing term papers on Dec. 4 to take a road trip to Albany to lobby for their campus and financial aid programs.
Heritage language learners - students who know a language and have perhaps spoken or heard it since birth - are taking courses to address gaps in in reading, writing, pronunciation and vocabulary.
More than 35 Buffalo workers got a raise this year and many more will soon get one, thanks to the persistence of a volunteer commission headed by Lou Jean Fleron, a Cornell University faculty member. The group is Buffalo's Living Wage Commission, the only unpaid citizen's group in the country charged with enforcing a city's living wage law (about 100 cities across the country have a living wage ordinance). (September 3, 2004)
Pew Charitable Trusts has awarded Cornell $2 million over four years to support a research scholarship program for undergraduates and universitywide interdisciplinary research and educational initiatives.