Native Americas, the flagship publication of Akwe:kon Press at Cornell's American Indian Program, has won first place for general excellence plus eight other national journalism awards bestowed by the Native American Journalist Association.
Maddening cow disease might be a better name, so frustrating is the causative agent with its apparent ability to move among species. Not to mention the public- health dilemmas facing authorities in Great Britain, where a cattle disease called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, may have infected humans.
Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman of the board and CEO of General Electric Co., the world's most profitable industrial company, will give the 2004 Hatfield address, April 15 at 4:30 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall on the Cornell University campus. There will be overflow seating, and closed-circuit television viewing of the talk, in PepsiCo Auditorium, 305 Ives Hall. The talk is free and open to the public. (April 8, 2004)
Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in the world where poverty keeps getting worse, a Cornell economist says. His new mission: to head up a major, collaborative research effort with a strong focus on policy that will have a major impact on improving the lives of millions of poor Africans.
On Sept. 6 and 7, anthropologists, historians, sociologists and even an exiled Peruvian general will join forces on the Cornell campus to consider the question: How is the military being redefined in different corners of the globe as the 20th century draws to a close?
Karlton E. Hester and Roberto Sierra, members of the Cornell music faculty, have been selected as American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Award recipients.
The five subpopulations of Asian rice all belong to one species, but their genetic structures are so different that, genetically speaking, they are almost like different species, a new study finds. (Sept. 14, 2011)
Cornell already offers several courses nicknamed 'Physics for Poets.' Now poet Bridget Meeds has proposed just the opposite. 'I'll be offering a workshop called 'Poetry for Physicists.'