There will be a weekend of celebration, March 28 and 29 — including a free public lecture, workshop and an open concert — as Cornell University welcomes the legendary Fisk Jubilee Singers to Ithaca.
Two professors in the Cornell University College of Engineering have received prestigious $50,000 awards from the 2004 Lockheed Martin University Research Grants Program. The two recipients are Alyssa B. Apsel, the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mark Campbell, assistant professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. (February 11, 2004)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- How should pivotal historical events be recorded? Depicted? Commemorated? "Recent controversies in public history, from the 'Disney's America' theme park to the Smithsonian Institution's Enola Gay exhibit, have highlighted the contested nature of collective memory," says Cornell University graduate student Jeffrey Hyson. Such debates are themselves powerful reminders of the uneasy alliance of history and memory, he said. That alliance is the theme of a conference that will be held on the Cornell campus April 11 through 13, titled "History and Memory: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference." All programs are free and open to the public and will be held in the A.D. White House on the Cornell campus. The conference is being sponsored by the Department of History, Society for the Humanities, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and Graduate History Association.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- A diet based on wheat foods such as pasta, bread and cereal may be contributing to this nation's soaring rates of diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and coronary heart disease, according to a new Cornell University study. On the other hand, rice-based diets, and to a lesser extent fish and green vegetables, appear to lower the level of blood values associated with the risk of these diseases.
The annual College Sustainability Report Card lists Cornell as one of about two dozen 'Campus Sustainability Leaders,' but faults the university for not making its investment decisions public. (Feb. 7, 2007)
Cigarette smoking is a form of child abuse, says one of the nation's leading child abuse experts, and it's high time we recognize it as such. "More young children are killed by parental smoking than by all unintentional injuries combined," says James Garbarino, an internationally recognized expert on child protection.
It may be that the notorious "glass ceiling" is actually a glass door, but one that women can open only after other women have already done so, says new research by Professor Heather A. Haveman at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Carl HopkinsAlthough these fish look alike and have the same DNA genetic makeup, they have very different electrical signals and will only mate with fish that produce the same signals. Cornell researchers believe that these…
Nominations and applications are being sought for Cornell University's Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship in Service-Learning. The deadline for submissions is March 31. The fellowship was created by Cornell alumni Barbara Kaplan '59, her husband, Leslie Kaplan, son Douglas Kaplan '88 and daughter Emily Kaplan '91 in recognition of the importance of the national movement in higher education for greater involvement in civic engagement. Two $5,000 awards will be given to Cornell faculty members seeking to establish or expand innovative service-learning projects that actively involve Cornell students in community-based action research, teaching and outreach efforts that address important community-identified policy issues. (March 3, 2003)
Norman R. Scott, vice president for research and advanced studies at Cornell, today (March 28) issued the following statement upon receiving news that Cornell had not been successful in the latest round of supercomputing competition sponsored by the National Science Foundation.