Students have launched Practice Makes Perfect, a nonprofit student organization that pairs high school students with fifth-graders for summer mentoring. (Dec. 7, 2011)
ILR School Professor Sam Bacharach and his colleagues have filmed the personal stories of recovering alcoholics as they reflect on their lives and struggle to remain sober. (Sept. 9, 2009)
Colombia, which was ridden by drug trafficking and violence 10 years ago, is now a tourist destination with returning Peace Corps volunteers, said the former ambassador Nov. 15, talking on campus. (Nov. 16, 2010)
Peter Adamson, professor of ancient and medieval philosophy at King's College London, said Muslims saved civilization by translating and studying Greek texts.
Cornell researchers have prompted rural women to walk more regularly through a worksite intervention that helps change an office's environment and culture to encourage more walking. (April 13, 2010)
Exiled Georgian writer Irakli Kakabadze taught students this semester about the use of nonviolent conflict resolution and the creative arts to resolve political and social conflicts. (April 13, 2010)
Ritch Savin-Williams, professor of developmental psychology and director of Cornell's Sex and Gender Lab, talked with media members about the dangerous myth of 'fragile' gay youth. (Nov. 10, 2010)
A study finds that white men and minority women become intimate and cohabitate faster than other couples do. The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Social Forces. (Nov. 23, 2011)