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.
Food is vital for human life, promotes pleasure and prevents disease. Though biological scientists have studied food and nutrition in depth, few sociologists have focused on them as social problems.
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.
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.
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)
As winter finches move south across the Canada-U.S. border in what may be record numbers, ornithological scientists are getting their best-ever look at a massive bird 'irruption,' thanks to thousands of citizen scientists.
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?
President Jeffrey S. Lehman's State of the University address Saturday morning in Bartels Hall began as expected for a hot day in June. Newspapers used as fans in the stifling Newman Arena heat; jovial alumni, sorted by age -- 1940s and 1950s graduates in Cornell-red folding chairs; just-out-of-school 20-somethings in the bleachers behind. By the end of the address, the alumni would share sadness and shock as they digested the unexpected news: Lehman, the first Cornell alumnus to hold the university's highest office, had closed his speech by announcing his resignation after just two years as president.