A suicide-prevention expert and three other panelists spoke at forums April 4 about the rationale for permanent bridge barriers or nets, which Cornell and the city of Ithaca are studying. (April 7, 2011)
English faculty authors paid sincere tribute, with insight and analysis, to fellow Cornell writers E.B. White '21, Phyllis Janowitz and James McConkey, Sept. 16 in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Ray J. Wu, Cornell professor of molecular biology and genetics, who developed the first method for sequencing DNA and some of the fundamental tools for DNA cloning, died at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca Feb. 10.
Charles J. Arntzen, president and chief executive officer of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, and Gregory D. May, a plant scientist at the institute and adjunct professor of plant biology at Cornell, will receive the 1998 Inventors of the Year award April 23.
The Cornell Public Service Center has announced the first fellows in the new Cornell Civic Leaders Fellowship Program. The program will enable four community leaders involved in economic- and community-development efforts to join the Cornell community.
The highly endangered North Atlantic right whale population is facing a difficult journey to recovery. That recovery may become even more precarious if North Atlantic climate takes a turn for the worse, according to Cornell University ecologists.
Hector Abruna, Barbara Baird, Geoffrey WIlliam Coates, Michael Shuler and Mariana Wolfner have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Martin Bernal, author of 'Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classic Civilization,' continues to take his lead from late 18th-century Western scholars who looked to Egypt -- not Greece -- as the root of ancient culture. (Oct. 18, 2007)
Educational communications experts, World Wide Web programmers, curriculum designers and computer and video technologists are joining forces with Cornell faculty to extend Cornell's educational programs throughout the world.
Artists take literary inspiration and run with it in "The Novel Picture: Interactions Between Text and Image," on display at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, now through June 11.
The History of Art Majors' Society, a group…