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.
Jennie Tiffany Towle Farley, a champion of women's rights and Cornell University professor of industrial and labor relations, co-founder of Cornell's Women's Studies Program and a former member of the university's Board of Trustees, died June 19 in Hudson, N.Y., after a long illness. She was 69.
Isaac Kramnick, a 30-year Cornell University faculty member who serves as the Richard J. Schwartz Professor and chair of the Department of Government, has been named vice provost for undergraduate education. Announcing the appointment, effective July 1.
Almost globally, men are thought to be stumbling blocks to planned parenthood efforts. A Cornell researcher, however, has found that men around the world want to be involved but are given little chance to participate in family planning issues.
Parents with two children put in 7.5 hours a day raising kids -- three times more than experts had previously estimated because they had only considered primary child care, a Cornell University time-use expert has found.
Women who take soy or herbal supplements, such as black cohosh, red clover and ginseng, should do so with care, says an expert affiliated with the Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF) at Cornell.
Seven distinguished Cornell alumni have received Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Awards recognizing their outstanding long-term service as Cornell volunteers.
The Ward Laboratory at Cornell, which houses a small-scale nuclear reactor for research and teaching, is now the Ward Center for Nuclear Sciences, a campuswide center.
A fortified orange-flavored powdered drink has proved so successful in improving the health of Tanzanian children that the Cornell and Tanzanian teams who tested it now want to see if it will do the same for other developing countries.
The Materials Science Center (MSC) at Cornell University has received funding for another five years, topping the list of institutions that were funded by the National Science Foundation as centers of materials research.