To emphasize the role computing is taking across a broad range of disciplines, Cornell Provost Don M. Randel has created the new post of dean for computing and information science. He has appointed Robert Constable.
Throughout April students at Cornell and the University of Washington will vie to see which school can build the most complete 3-D model of campus buildings. (April 8, 2010)
A new study by Kelly Musick finds that college lowers the odds of people from less-advantaged backgrounds from ever marrying, creating a 'marriage market mismatch.' (Jan. 24, 2012)
A student team from New York University's Stern School of Business was the first-place winner April 4 in the first-ever MBA Stock Pitch Competition. Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, which hosted the competition, came in second. They competed for two days against teams from seven other top U.S. business schools and were judged by a blue-ribbon panel of Wall Street stock-analysis experts on the buy and sell sides. The NYU team won a cash prize of $3,000, and the Johnson School team won $1,500. The competition for future stock analysts was co-sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). (April 8, 2003)
On Nov. 3, the Senior Review, an advisory panel to the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences, recommended a 24 percent cut in funding over the next three years for Arecibo Observatory, which…
Cornell's animal care and use program, which accounts for the well-being of all the animals in departments across campus, has received full accreditation.
Betty Friedan would like to develop a quality of life measure -- let's call it QOL -- similar to economic measures like the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that we've created to plumb our nation's economic health.
By tweaking a gene in the mouse genome, scientists are creating animal models of Huntington's disease that mimic human Huntington's and may lead to effective treatments for this killer illness.
Juan Flores, professor of Black & Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York, is guest speaker for the Latino Studies Program's spring colloquium at Cornell University on Friday, April 6, at 4:30 p.m. in 142 Goldwin Smith Hall.
Hotel operators have often discounted their room rates during slow times, in the belief that lower rates will increase revenues. They won't, according to the preliminary findings of a study at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration.