Cornell's School of Hotel Administration and The Culinary Institute of America -- the top school of culinary arts -- have now teamed to offer a cooperative degree program that gives students the best of both worlds.
Stuart MacDonald Brown Jr., a former Cornell administrator and professor who was an authority on the philosophy of ethics and political theory, died March 18 at the Reconstruction Home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 80. He died from complications of a stroke, said his wife, Catherine D. Hemphill.
Larry Salameno '66, J.D. '69, was inspired to give to the Far Above campaign because he was 'intrigued by the fact that Cornell is working to create a community' in the West Campus House System. (May 1, 2008)
Cornell will honor 35 secondary school teachers, some from as far away as Poland, Singapore and China, May 20. The teachers will be brought to campus and recognized for their inspirational teaching with a $4,000 scholarship in their names for future Cornell students from their schools or regions.
Politicians across the country - and in particular congressmen - are engaged in a frenzied dance of political extortion, extracting payments from constituents for legislative inaction. "It's a shakedown - and it's perfectly legal," says Cornell law Professor Fred S. McChesney.
A Cornell program, Small Steps Are Easier Together, is reaching out to rural communities and workplaces to get women to be more active and eat more healthfully to lower breast cancer risk. (Aug. 3, 2009)
The next U.S. administration must work with weak Middle Eastern states and focus on Asia, especially China, asserts foreign policy expert Francis Fukuyama '74. (April 25, 2008)
Researchers have observed that overweight people underestimate how much they eat by twice as much as normal-weight people do. So are heavier people's underestimates intentional?
No, reports a new Cornell study published in the…
In his third interactive webcast with Cornell alumni and friends, President David Skorton addressed the university's research goals, state funding and fiscal challenges. (July 30, 2009)
Among all American colleges and universities, Cornell University's motto is the best, according to Motto magazine, which recently released its first annual Top 10 Motto List. (Aug. 6, 2007)