A committee of city of Ithaca and Cornell stakeholders met Feb. 7 to review preliminary conceptual options to potentially improve the safety of bridges spanning high gorges. (Feb. 9, 2011)
The research could have implications for reconstructing personal ancestries, personalized medicine, drug treatments and mapping risk factors for such common diseases as hypertension and diabetes. (Dec. 22, 2009)
Ron Rohrbaugh of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology uses the ivory-billed woodpecker to illustrate the concept of a 'lost' species, one that is so rare that it is not able to be detected or studied. (Dec. 22, 2009)
It's no substitute for roaming the leafy byways, intriguing gardens and spectacular gorges in one of America's most beautiful college campuses. Rather, the new video presentation, A Journey Through Time and Nature: Cornell Plantations Path, adds a fourth dimension as archival film footage summons scholarly ghosts to join the modern-day walker through a living museum of natural history at Cornell.
A Cornell sociologist has transformed the small world concept of "six degrees of separation" into a scientific sampling method for finding and studying "hidden populations," from drug users to jazz musicians.
The Cornell Wind Ensemble shared their music and musical expertise with communities, schools and disadvantaged local students on a biennial tour of Costa Rica in January.
Boxes, luggage, eager students and teary parents flooded the sidewalks and lawns of North Campus Aug. 22 as Cornell welcomed the Class of 2012. (Aug. 25, 2008)
Virginia V. Valian, professor of psychology and linguistics at Hunter College and author of Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women, will give a lecture on women in academic careers Friday, April 1, at noon in the James Law Auditorium, College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. Valian, who also is the co-director of the Hunter College Gender Equity Project, will draw on psychology, sociology, economics and neuropsychology to examine the invisible barriers and explain the disparity in salary, rank and rates of promotion for men and women in the professions, science and academia.
Much of the research and discovery in biological science is now taking place at the interface of the life sciences with other disciplines, from materials science to computer engineering.
A new book offers insight on the interrelationships among some of modern art and literature's most important and influential figures, while shedding significant light on the influence of African, Asian and Pacific cultures on European modernism.