Cornell will celebrate entrepreneurship April 14-15 with hotelier and philanthropist Harris Rosen, Peter Coors of beer fame and Texas Rangers and United Football League top officials. (April 7, 2011)
Original dance work by student, alumni and faculty choreographers, along with community members and visiting artists, will be featured March 5-13 in the 2012 Locally Grown Dance Festival.
Growing up on a family farm in western Massachusetts, David R. Lee internalized early the small-town New England ethic of strong civic engagement, which in many places has dramatically weakened over the years due to suburban sprawl, changes in work and family patterns and income inequality. That ethic, however, has largely shaped who Lee is today. For nearly 25 years this Cornell professor of applied economics and management has been caring about his neighbors, both far and near.
As part of the Cornell GK-12 Grass Roots program, four Cornell graduate students and two local teachers traveled to India to exchange best practices in science education with Indian schoolteachers.
Summer noncredit courses for adults and families lure visitors off the Maine-New Hampshire coast to Appledore Island, the Shoals Marine Laboratory (SML) base that has become a learning island for students of all ages.
A Cornell postdoctoral researcher proposes that parasite evolution may be behind cases where certain disease-causing parasites favor one sex over the other in a host species.
Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center marks its 40th anniversary with exhibitions, symposia and other events celebrating its history and considering the future of the field it pioneered.
In the evolutionary battle in which plants are trying to beef up their defenses against pathogens, a bacterium has been found that infects tomatoes by injecting a special protein into the plant's cells to undermine the plant's defense system. (July 18, 2007)
More than 350 cancer survivors and guests were treated to a chicken barbecue provided by volunteer staff at the Hotel School and Statler Hotel at the American Cancer Society's annual Relay for Life, July 13. (July 17, 2007)