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.
Cornell has been named one of the "Best Employers for Workers over 50" for the second consecutive year by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).
The association honors 50 employers in the United States each year for…
A vigorous advocate for healthful and environmentally "green" workplaces, Edward Cohen-Rosenthal died Jan. 19 at Gilchrist Hospice Center in Baltimore, Md., after a six-year struggle with cancer.
For the first time, researchers have identified how cabbage looper caterpillars in the field develop resistance to the most successful and widely used biological insecticide.
The College of Architecture, Art and Planning welcomed the famed distance runner and humanitarian with a reception Dec. 14 that also launched the Growing Up in Nairobi program and a planning and architecture studio.
A new laser-based process to study the regulation of signal transmission between cells of the nervous system has led to the discovery of several compounds that could become the basis for a cocaine-poisoning treatment.
Bettina Wagner, assistant professor of population medicine and diagnostic sciences and a veterinary immunologist in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell, has been awarded $344,000 over three years as part of a $2.1…
Professors Richard Swedberg and Trevor Pinch shared numerous details, uncovered in their research about the famous philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1949 visit to Ithaca, in a talk on campus Feb. 27. (March 1, 2012)
Diversity in engineering is not just about fairness, but about creativity, according to Wm. [William] A. Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering, who will visit the Cornell campus to deliver two lectures on April 11 and 12.