Why have single-parent, stepparent and unmarried-parent families become so common? What are the consequences for growing numbers of children who live apart from their biological fathers? Such questions are at the heart of the first three-year theme of the Institute for Social Sciences (ISS).
Events this week include a Lincoln exhibit, a bird count, a lecture on native artists, a concert by soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian in Bailey Hall, and Neil Simon's 'Biloxi Blues.' (Feb. 11, 2010)
With the help of Weslin Consulting Services, a national public transportation consulting firm, Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit is initiating a service and fare consolidation study. Currently, City of Ithaca, Tompkins County and Cornell transportation services are operated separately, with different fare structures.
Slope Day 2008 started slow and ended wet, but even mid-afternoon rain didn't dampen the spirits of students gathered to celebrate the end of classes. (May 2, 2008)
Computer programs that can adapt to changing conditions — both in the virtual worlds they are creating and the hardware on which they are running — will be developed under a $5 million project funded as part of the $90 million Information Technology Research initiative of the National Science Foundation.
The conference, Cornell Mosaic: Celebrating Diversity and Advancing Inclusion on the will bring together African-American, Asian, Latino and Native American alumni and faculty to promote interaction and to discuss, issues of concern to their communities.
They got started way back in 1994, in the "pre-Netscape days," before the Internet took off as a commercial enterprise. It was then that Cornell students Todd Krizelman and Stephan Paternot, armed with only a modem and a Macintosh computer in Krizelman's dorm room.
Sir Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal and Master of Trinity College, the University of Cambridge, as well as a professor of cosmology and astrophysics, will deliver three Messenger Lectures at Cornell University in April. They are free and open to the public and will be held in the Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
Sir Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal and Master of Trinity College, the University of Cambridge, as well as a professor of cosmology and astrophysics, will deliver three Messenger Lectures at Cornell in April.