Education officials don't usually have to make life-or-death decisions on the job. But for Enver Halilovic, who was responsible for education in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the war there, moral questions loomed over his every mandate.
Even after they have paired with a male, the female North American barn swallow still comparison-shops for sexual partners. And forget personality - females judge males by their looks: the reddish color of the males' breast and belly feathers.
The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded $10 million to a four-institution consortium that includes Cornell University to build agricultural research and extension services in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to alleviate the nation's chronic hunger, poverty and disease. Over the next five years, the consortium plans to build institutional research and extension capacity in agriculture, natural-resource management, micro-finance and micro-enterprise development in the country's Amhara region. Officially, the program is called Assisting the Shift in Paradigms in Agricultural Research and Extension in Ethiopia (ASPIRE). (August 19, 2002)
A team of Cornell researchers has been awarded a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to develop advanced Web tools for social sciences research.
John L. Ford has been reappointed as the Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students at Cornell, Susan H. Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, announced Wednesday.
About 90 percent of child deaths worldwide occur in just 42 countries -- and about one-fourth of these deaths occur before age 5 in the poorest countries, such as Angola and Niger.
On July 20, 1969, at 4:17 p.m. EDT, humans made their first landing on the moon. And at 10:56 that evening, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the lunar surface.
The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., an affiliate of Cornell University, announced that clinical trials will begin today (July 7) at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., to test the safety and immunogenicity of the world's first potential oral vaccine against the hepatitis B virus.
Butterflies caught by Vladimir Nabokov, a manuscript scrawled by James Joyce and an assortment of brains, bird songs, fossils, fish and flowers are all part of the many object collections Cornell owns.