Peter Bergen, CNN national security analyst and an author, examined how revolutionaries, Barack Obama and ordinary Muslims are remaking the Middle East March 7. (March 13, 2012)
Kim Brown Bixler ’91 entertained a Statler Auditorium crowd July 10 with stories of growing up in the only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Rochester, N.Y.
Using information gleaned from the sun's solar cycles and tree rings, archaeologists are rewriting the timeline of the Bronze and Iron Ages. The research dates certain artifacts of the ancient eastern Mediterranean decades earlier than previously thought. And it places an early appearance of the alphabet outside Phoenicia at around 740 B.C.
Cornell Professor Roald Hoffmann has been included among the top 75 chemists of the past 75 years in a special issue of Chemical & Engineering News, published Jan. 12.
Cornell researchers have improved a technique called association mapping that identifies the genetic origins of complex traits, from disease to crop yields to milk yields, controlled by multiple genes.
Cornell announced today that Daniel Usner, a highly regarded historian of American Indian-Colonial relations, will succeed Jane Mt. Pleasant as the director of the University's American Indian Program.
Turning plants such as corn, soybeans and sunflowers into fuel uses much more energy than the resulting ethanol or biodiesel generates, according to a new Cornell University and University of California-Berkeley study.
Gary Stewart, opinion and senior editor at The Ithaca Journal, has been appointed assistant director of community relations at Cornell University, announced Director of Community Relations John Gutenberger, May 14. Stewart will assume his new position July 1. (May 15, 2002)
The Cornell Store will have its list of top-10 best-selling hardcover non-fiction books aired on C-Span 2 Saturday night, Jan. 17. Between segments of the cable network's program "About Books" each week, two best-seller lists are featured, one from an independent bookstore and one from a newspaper or magazine.