'Mind and Memory,' a popular public lecture series and undergraduate course, has received a $5,000 grant from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The grant will help support the 'Mind and Memory' series, directed by Diane Ackerman under the aegis of the Society for the Humanities.
Peace-building in Africa and the Middle East, extreme poverty and the need for more conflict resolution may be the business of the diplomats at the United Nations, but on Nov. 3, they also were the concerns of 110 members of the…
Government pressure to use more of the university's endowment to support beefed-up financial aid packages for Cornell students can take a toll on research and teaching investments, the provost warns.
Overweight and obese women have significantly less success breast-feeding their babies than their normal-weight counterparts, according to a new Cornell/Bassett Hospital study, and biological factors largely may be why.
Is the American family dissolving or evolving, asked H. Elizabeth Peters, professor of policy analysis and management in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell in a public lecture April 20.
To offer a healthful alternative to the 1992 U.S. Food Guide Pyramid, Cornell University and Harvard University researchers have teamed up with other experts in unveiling an official Vegetarian Diet Pyramid. (Jan. 7, 1998)
Evelyne Ender, maitre-assistante in modern English literature at the University of Geneva, will speak on "Writing and Remembering: Virginia Woolf, Lou Andreas-Salome and Others," Thursday, Feb. 19, at 4:30 p.m. in the A.D. White House, as part of the Cornell Lecture Series. The lecture is free and open to the public.
A decade ago, when some of Wolfgang Sachse's graduate students began to dance tango, they invited him to watch. He brought his camera. "I was intrigued by what I saw: the connection between two persons moving beautifully through…
Alas, the moon is not for winter sports. Never mind the difficulty of a triple axel in a bulky spacesuit (though the diminished gravity might help) -- ice, it turns out, is hard to come by up there.