Through a collection of alumni stories, the Consortium on Financing Higher Education looks at the ways universities serve the public. Renowned pediatrician Margaret Morgan Lawrence '36 is profiled in the piece.
Technological advances will continue to have profound effects on manufacturing firms. But the most important changes will come in the ways companies manage their supply chains and inventories, said L. Joseph Thomas, professor of manufacturing at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Alice Fulton, the award-winning poet, writer and professor of English at Cornell, will open the Cornell Plantations free Wednesday night lecture series with a Sept. 10 presentation, "Let the Barbaric Flowers Live: Nature and Poetry."
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.
Personality disorders could be more effectively diagnosed by identifying and targeting the disrupted neurobiological systems where the disorders originate, report Cornell researchers.
A $5 million grant from the USDA will be used by the new Northeast Bioenergy and Bioproducts Education Program to train science teachers in presenting lessons about bioenergy. (Jan. 24, 2011)
The terrace at Appel Commons, overlooking Rawlings Green on North Campus, was dedicated in honor of Cornell Professor Glenn Altschuler, Sept. 24. (Sept. 29, 2008)
Natural resources major Apollonya Porcelli '10 spoke on violence against nature and the social and economic structures that can prevent it, from grassroots to governmental levels. (Feb. 11, 2009)
A day after Jeff Tambroni was named the head men's lacrosse coach at Penn State (June 17), Cornell announced his successor: associate head coach Ben DeLuca '98. (June 18, 2010)
Professor Trevor Pinch presented 'The Sound of Economic Exchange: Listening to Sound Studies,' Feb. 15 as the Society for the Humanities Annual Invitational lecturer.