Almost half of American children -- and most black children and children who spend their childhoods in single-parent households -- will eat meals paid for by food stamps at some point while growing up. (Nov. 3, 2009)
Professor David Harris will return to Cornell as a senior associate dean in Arts and Sciences this summer after a year as a deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Lee Humphreys, assistant professor of communication, is studying the stunning similarities between 18th- and 19th-century diary entries and Twitter tweets. (June 3, 2010)
Cornell University announced today that it will establish an integrated College of Business with the transformative excellence, scope and scale to cement the university’s position as a world-class center of teaching and research for business management and entrepreneurship.
Historian Carol Kammen discussed the experiences of black students early in Cornell's history Oct. 15 at the Africana Studies and Research Center. (Oct. 23, 2009)
The difficulty of finding a job in the current economy when a candidate has the additional handicap of a criminal record was the focus at the Richard Netter Conference, Oct. 9 in New York City. (Oct. 23, 2009)
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson gave a lecture Oct. 20 to launch Cornell Library's celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth and a new exhibition on Lincoln.
In his campus visit Oct. 15, Asaf Shariv, consul general of Israel in New York, said he is still optimistic about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. (Oct. 20, 2009)
Design students working with Professor Lorraine Maxwell have been helping the New Roots high school and Caroline Elementary School rethink how they use some of their spaces. (Dec. 15, 2010)
A panel of Cornell food entrepreneur experts, including a chef, sommelier, restaurateur and executive, pondered the successes and challenges of this growing industry, Dec. 6 in New York. (Dec. 9, 2010)