Eminent cultural theorist and novelist Kwame Anthony Appiah will explore how honor is the engine behind moral progress Sept. 23 at the Graduate School's 2011 Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture. (Sept. 15, 2011)
The university is on track to save $30 million to $40 million by June 2014 by changing the way it buys everything from key chains to copiers, according to managers of a procurement initiative. (Sept. 14, 2011)
Thousands of Cornellians are expected to return to campus Sept. 16-18 for Homecoming 2011. Among the weekend's highlights are a mobile scavenger hunt, a student parade and the first-ever Fan Festival. (Sept. 14, 2011)
Cornell has stepped up efforts to support faculty and staff who have been affected by the flooding this past week, including an additional two paid days off and emergency funding possibilities. (Sept. 14, 2011)
The five subpopulations of Asian rice all belong to one species, but their genetic structures are so different that, genetically speaking, they are almost like different species, a new study finds. (Sept. 14, 2011)
The School of Hotel Administration and the Sloan Program in Health Administration have a collaboration with Health Care REIT Inc. The company will sponsor a two-credit senior living course this fall. (Sept. 14, 2011)
Professor John Cawley is the editor of 912-page volume, 'The Oxford Handbook of The Social Science of Obesity' (2011), a new 'Rosetta stone' on the causes and consequences of obesity. (Sept. 14, 2011)