Diversity is more than skin color, language and family differences. To 3- and 4-year-olds, it can be as simple as wearing glasses, knowing how to tie shoes, eat with chopsticks or simply having a different point of view.
The hotel business -- while suffering from the drop in air travel -- actually is doing better than has been reported, with a new marketing focus, fewer layoffs and more optimism in many quarters, a national survey of general managers shows.
When Bill Vanneman '31 heard that the Class of 2000 was having trouble meeting expenses for its first reunion, he did not hesitate to lend a hand -- and a buck.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees approved a 2001-02 budget that calls for a 4.9 percent tuition increase for the endowed colleges at its meeting in New York City Saturday (Jan. 27, 2001).
Reach out and touch someone may be the new motto of the hospitality industry. A study by the Hotel School, shows that when restaurant servers touch their customers - even for as long as four seconds - they increase their tips.
The Sanskrit word "yoga" shares its roots with "yoke," as in the alignment of mind and body. Ongoing research at Weill Cornell Medical College is revealing the extent of yoga's capacity to fight an insidious neurodegenerative disease.
Want to crack cryptography? Do you crave secret codes? If you want to figure out fractals or if you enjoy the connection between math and art, then consider joining the Cornell Math Explorers Club.
Professor of classics and history of art Verity Platt is a lead researcher on the Ancient Lives Project, exploring the reception - often imagined - of classical poetry and art and their creators.
A gift from the Uihlein Foundation will be used to endow the director's position at the Uihlein Forest Maple Sugar Field Station, in Lake Placid, N.Y., over the next six years. (Jan. 16, 2007)