Students attending classes at Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center routinely come from different colleges and departments within the university. But in one such class, they come from different universities.
The graham cracker village, with its ice cream cone trees, gum drop lanterns, chocolate graham cracker highways, fruit leather wreaths, candy cane doorways and shredded wheat rooftops looks like something from the kitchen of Willie Wonka's chocolate factory.
The South Asia Program at Cornell University has announced the creation of the Rabindranath Tagore Endowment in Modern Indian Literature, made possible through a generous gift.
Unless the world's food-growing nations improve their resource-management practices, life in the 21st century will be as tough as it is now in the 80 countries that already suffer serious water shortages, a new Cornell University study warns.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Unless the world's food-growing nations improve their resource-management practices, life in the 21st century will be as tough as it is now in the 80 countries that already suffer serious water shortages, a new Cornell University study warns. As a start, governments should end irrigation subsidies that encourage inefficient use of water and instead reward conservation, according the report, "Water Resources: Agriculture, the Environment and Society," published in the February 1997 issue of the journal, BioScience.
Matt Pritchard, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, uses satellites to calculate centimeter-scale movements of Earth's surface to learn more about earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides. (Nov. 1, 2007)
The President's Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) at Cornell will focus on the undergraduate experience at its annual spring meeting on campus March 12-14.
Leonard Good, executive director of the World Bank, will give a lecture at Cornell titled "International Development and the World Bank in the 21st Century" on Friday, Feb. 21, at 3:30 p.m. in the Guerlac Room of the A.D. White House.
A Cornell team called Big Red is about to compete in the world soccer cup finals. But if the team wins, no champagne will be poured on the players, and no sports bras will be displayed. That's because all the players are robots.
Benjamin Widom, Cornell University Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry, is honored with a special issue of the journal Molecular Physics. (November 15, 2005)