Cornell alumni Irwin '54, BEE '56, and Joan '54 Jacobs have established a $30 million scholarship and fellowship endowment for Cornell's College of Engineering.
Scientists are urging swift action to combat canine distemper virus, which is killing such endangered species as Amur tigers and lions in Africa. The virus is closely related to the virus that causes measles in humans.
"Is it fair trade when you get designer prices for it?"
"New York education standards should require students to learn the relationship between their shirt and the global world."
"We need to connect fair trade with local…
The Faculty Award Program is a worldwide competition intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities and those in IBM research, development and service organizations. (Aug. 26, 2009)
Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings and Provost Biddy Martin today (Feb. 6, 2002) issued a statement to all students, faculty and staff on the university';s commitment to racial and ethnic diversity. (February 7, 2002)
Women who live with men in a romantic relationship do a disproportionate share of the housework, even when the women work and the men don’t, says a Cornell professor of policy analysis and management.
Max J. Pfeffer, professor of rural sociology at Cornell, has been named associate director of the university's Agricultural Experiment Station in Ithaca.
Economics is the hottest major in the College of Arts and Sciences these days. With upward of 600 students tallied in the department's 2006-07 annual report, economics is by far the college's largest major. (Nov. 6, 2007)
The intellectual and academic genius of the Africana Studies and Research Center (ASRC) at Cornell was fully evident in a brilliant display of scholarship and celebration April 29. In a keynote address that crowned a colloquium on Brown v. Board of Education, Cornell alumna and legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw (Class of 1981, Africana studies) delivered a nuanced discussion of the challenges faced by the "post-Brown generation" of black students entering law schools in the 1980s and her efforts to put critical race theory on the academic map.
Insects are good for the economy. According to a new study co-authored by John Losey, the dollar value of some insect services is more than $57 billion a year.