To address inequality and the environmental crisis facing the world today people should pull together rather than compete against each other for individual gain, two faculty members urged in a Feb. 28 lecture.
About 2,000 Cornellians flocked to Willard Straight Hall Sept. 25 to receive a seasonal flu vaccination. The H1N1 vaccine is due on campus sometime in October. (Sept. 28, 2009)
The chance of more accurate weather forecasts might improve this afternoon (Feb. 22), when two Cornell graduate students describe their new method of statistical forecast analysis that could lift current forecasting techniques out of a very light fog.
In the quest for faster and cheaper computers, scientists have imaged pore structures in insulation material at sub-nanometer scales for the first time. (June 8, 2010)
Psychologist William E. Cross Jr. of the City University of New York's Graduate Center, a former associate professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, will give the Cornell College of Human Ecology's annual Flemmie Kittrell lecture Monday, April 12, at 4 p.m. in G73 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall (MVR) on the Cornell campus. The lecture is free and open to the public. Cross, whose work focuses on the study of African-American identity, will speak on the topic "Theory and Research on Black Identity Before and After the 1954 Brown Decision on School Desegregation." (April 7, 2004)
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced on Oct. 23 that he will ask the Board of Trustees to approve the investment of $400 million over the next 10 years for a new program to transform undergraduate education.
What are good strategies to raise awareness in the workplace about diversity and persons with disabilities? What are reasonable accommodations to make for individuals with disabilities? What are the issues when considering the hiring of a person with cognitive or psychiatric disabilities?
People feeling sad tend to eat more of less-healthy comfort foods than when they feel happy, finds a new study co-authored by Cornell's Brian Wansink. However, when nutritional information is available, those same sad people curb their hedonistic consumption, but happier people don't. (Jan. 23, 2007)
Cornell has been named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, With Distinction for its commitment to service learning and civic engagement. (March 15, 2012)