Comedian Whoopi Goldberg joked about aging, current politics and even poverty during her performance Oct. 28, during Cornell's First-Year Family Weekend. (November 01, 2005)
History professor Steven Kaplan discusses the importance of the Marquis de Lafayette to America and the Cornell University Library collection of Lafayette's papers, the largest collection outside France. (Sept. 20, 2007)
More than 300 students in Psychology 101 are taking part in the largest-ever objective study of the sleep patterns of individual college students. (Nov. 18, 2009)
On April 26 astronomy professor Steve Squyres will be awarded the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science for overseeing the science for the Mars Exploration Rover project. (March 20, 2007)
Three graduate students learned from faculty members Jed Sparks and Harry Greene how to teach field courses to undergraduates on a 10-day field course to Arizona.
Good decisions can be made at warp speed -- if you know how to bypass biases and embrace the opportunity that pressure offers -- say a Cornell University business school professor and a Wharton consultant in a new book. Described by Harvard Business Review as a "comprehensive, well-balanced guide" to decision-making, the book Winning Decisions (Doubleday Currency, 2002) by Professors J. Edward Russo and Paul Schoemaker takes decades of groundbreaking research on how people make decisions and delivers a four-step framework for making good decisions quickly. (March 21, 2002)
Grape growers and food processors benefit from water sensors for accurate moisture readings. Cornell researchers have developed a fingertip-sized sensor that is a hundred times more sensitive than current devices, and they hope to produce it for as little as $5 each.
"Work is at the core of human dignity," says Leila Janah, CEO and founder of Samasource, which connects poor people with tech jobs, during the Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture.