Overcoming the drawbacks of growing up with a single parent, black children do as well, both academically and socially, as blacks in two-parent homes, a study by Cornell and University of Utah researchers indicates.
John A. Swanson '61, M.Eng. '63, has committed $10 million to boost undergraduate education in the College of Engineering - including its experiential learning opportunities. (April 19, 2012)
Jefferson W. Tester '66, M.S. '67, will hold the first Croll Professorship of Sustainable Energy Systems in the College of Engineering. He will speak on campus, March 28-29, during the college's alumni association conference. (March 25, 2008)
Cornell researchers collaborated with Texas veterinarians to successfully extract and ship eggs of a deceased mare for remote fertilization and implantation in a surrogate horse. (Aug. 12, 2009)
While best known for his role in founding the university that bears his name, Ezra Cornell exemplifies the ingenuity and invention that was necessary to move the United States from an agrarian to an industrial base. During his lifetime, Cornell worked as a carpenter, mechanic, farmer, salesman, inventor, entrepreneur, politician and philanthropist.
Climate change could force 100 million people to lose their homes; entire countries will be underwater, according to the documentary 'Climate Refugees' and an Oct. 14 panel discussion. (Oct. 18, 2010)
Elie Wiesel will speak in Bailey Hall on the campus Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. Imprisoned in the Nazi death camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald at age 15, Wiesel survived to write about the horrific experience in such books as Night.
If deer have fetal memories from the womb, the fawn born to Doe 106 later this spring will have quite a story to tell about events the morning of March 8, 2003.
Cornell Professor Stephen J. Ceci is the 2002 recipient of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society. Established in 1996 to honor Urie Bronfenbrenner, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Human Development at Cornell.
Thomas A. Lyson, 58, Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell, died of cancer Dec. 28 at the Cayuga Medical Center. (Jan. 5, 2007)