A Cornell program that provides funding for graduate students to teach in public schools across the United States has been awarded $1.5 million by the National Science Foundation to continue and expand its work for another three years.
Getting at the truth about the language of lies and how and under what circumstances we weave our tangled webs is much of the stuff of Jeff Hancock's research.
The final report by the Middle States reaccreditation team, issued in late June, was glowing in its praise for Cornell University as "a truly special place."
On the 100th anniversary of Max Weber's seminal theory of how the values of ascetic Protestantism played a major role in the development of the spirit of capitalism in western Europe, the Center for the Study of Economy and Society (CSES) at Cornell will host a conference.
How do rain, sea salts, dust, plants, climate and time affect the chemistry of soil? At what threshold, for example, does the role of rain dramatically change the soil chemistry?
Think globally, act locally. Perhaps nowhere is this adage more relevant than when making the decision to buy and eat local foods, and Cornell Dining is putting its considerable spending power into supporting New York farmers.
James Joyce would have been right at home in 21st-century digital culture. He died in 1941, before the birth of the computer age, but his work can be seen as both a blueprint of contemporary hypermedia and a rich source for hypertextual applications, several scholars suggested at the 2005 North American James Joyce Conference, held June 14-18 at Cornell.
On July 4 from midnight to 3 a.m., the Cornell Space Sciences Building will be open to the public for a live view of the collision between a probe from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft and the comet Tempel 1, about 133 million kilometers (83 million miles) from Earth, courtesy of NASA TV.
A large collection of yellowing newsprint documenting Vietnam's war era is being archived for posterity, thanks to cooperative microfilming projects undertaken by Cornell University's Kroch Library and other institutions. (June 20, 2005)
Although hard-working gardeners look forward to the end of another growing season, a few precautions during the winter months will make plants healthier in the spring, according to experts at Cornell Plantations.