Some 500 Internet message boards are bringing together adolescents who injure themselves -- with cuts, carvings, scratches or burns. It is a world that is invisible to adults but of increasing importance to teenage social lives. …
Master of financial engineering students are putting theory into practice during their third and final semester of coursework at Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan. (Nov. 10, 2008)
A two-day discussion of business, environment and urban areas will feature Mary Nichols, assistant administrator for air and radiation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, speaking Friday, April 18, at 10 a.m. in 253 Malott Hall, Cornell.
Cornell's President Hunter Rawlings and protesters fighting a proposed West Campus parking lot in the Redbud Woods reached a truce Monday, June 18, 72 hours after a chain-link fence was erected around the two-acre site.
In 1940 near a small town in southern Poland called Oswiecim, close to the confluence of the Vistula and Sola rivers, the Germans built an enormous camp they called Auschwitz. Between 1940 and early 1945, according to the 'Encyclopedia Britannica,' between 1 million and 5 million people, many of them Jews, were killed.
Students from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, one of the top 20 business schools in the country, want to tackle real-world problems, not textbook examples. So Cornell Associate Professor Robert Bloomfield has developed a program that will allow his accounting classes to spend time analyzing challenges to actual businesses.
Two Cornell interior design classes didn't just build scale models, but the real thing - indoor play zones for child-care centers. The undergraduates planned, designed and built four child-care learning and play activity centers, or mini-playgrounds.
Richard N. Zare, the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, will give the Harry S. Kieval Lecture In Physics at Cornell on Monday, March 31.
Francis A. Kallfelz, D.V.M., has been appointed a James Law Professor of Medicine at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. His appointment was approved by the Cornell Board of Trustees at its March meeting.