Cornell has been awarded nearly $600,000 by the National Science Foundation for an innovative program to attract more people to computing careers, in which undergrads will mentor middle school students in 'virtual worlds.' (Jan. 3, 2007)
At the Fall Diversity in Scholarship and Engagement Symposium Dec. 7, a Cornell faculty member gave advice for minority students on how to get through graduate school and succeed in academic careers.
How do children influence their parents' eating habits? Can a polymer be used to deactivate chemical warfare agents? What are the differences in how jurors process information in criminal trials?
Cornell University Police will operate a sobriety checkpoint on campus between March 25 and May 4. This checkpoint was originally scheduled for the weekend of March 8 but was postponed due to bad weather. (March 25, 2002)
When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933, some 25,000 German Jews fled to France. Now a new book by a Cornell history professor offers the first major appraisal of French responses to the Jewish refugee crisis in the 1930s.
Do you know about Frank Dukepoo, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Anna Botsford Comstock or Jim Bell? You will if you close your textbooks, open your eyes and stare straight up at the Ithaca Sciencenter's new Wall of Inspiration to be dedicated on July 27 at 5:30 p.m.
Antonio M. Gotto Jr., M.D., has been appointed Cornell's Provost for Medical Affairs and the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of the Medical College in New York City, President Hunter Rawlings announced today.
Caitlin Barrett, assistant professor of classics, has published the new 831-page book 'Egyptianizing Figurines From Delos: A Study in Hellenistic Religion' (Brill 2011).
Cornell Plantations has added two more natural areas to its just over 4,000 acres of biologically diverse and ecologically fragile natural areas. They are a 120-acre chestnut oak forest with a mountain laurel understory on Bald…
Bad things happen to good parents. In a new book, Parents Under Siege: Why You Are the Solution, Not the Problem, in Your Child's Life, Professor James Garbarino and researcher Claire Bedard of Cornell help today's parents regain control of difficult children.