A group of Buddhist monks, visiting the U.S. to assist the Dalai Lama, will come to the Cornell campus with prayers for world peace on July 21. (July 15, 2011)
In a July 13 campus talk, alumna Diane Ackerman told of her new book about husband's recovery from a stoke and its effect on their marriage. (July 15, 2011)
An expansion of the Cornell and Columbia university libraries' collaboration will grant greater access to materials for students, faculty and staff of both institutions. (July 15, 2011)
Lecturer and fiction writer Elizabeth Tshele, MFA '10, whose pen name is NoViolet Bulawayo, has won the prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing, for her short story 'Hitting Budapest.' (July 15, 2011)
Cornell has received a $15 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to support financial aid for students in the Cornell Tradition program. (July 14, 2011)
When young children learn a second language, it strengthens their ability to pay attention to the right stuff, reports a new Cornell study. (July 14, 2011)
The high price of food and unstable prices worldwide are issues requiring separate solutions, economists Chris Barrett and Marc Bellemare argue in a new article in Foreign Affairs. (July 14, 2011)
That best way to reduce government debt is to invest now on improvements in infrastructure, education and other major national priorities, say Cornell professors Robert Hockett and Robert Frank. (July 14, 2011)
Susan Merkel, a senior lecturer in the Department of Microbiology, is leading an effort to introduce new microbiology curricula nationwide. (July 13, 2011)
Cornell scientists have helped develop a new method to end life-threatening heart fibrillations with much less pain and potential damage. Their study is published in Nature. (July 13, 2011)