Is abstinence-only sex education unconstitutional? Yes, say a Cornell Law School professor and a Washington, D.C., attorney, because it has the purpose and effect of endorsing a religious agenda.
Scientists from Cornell University will help the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in Seneca Falls, N.Y., exact revenge against purple loosestrife, a beautiful but prolific weed that chokes wetlands.
Initial information indicates that the massive reflector dish of Arecibo Observatory apparently sustained minimal damage from Hurricane Georges, which swept across Puerto Rico late Monday night, observatory officials report.
Patrons of Cornell's Guest Chef Series will be able to get a taste of history when John Doherty, executive chef of the Waldorf-Astoria who has prepared meals for state dinners hosted by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, recreates these historic dinners for the public March 3.
The work in wood of Elfriede Abbe, illustrator, printer and sculptor, is being celebrated in an exhibition at Cornell's Carl A. Kroch Library through March 27. The exhibition encompasses Abbe's private press books, wood block prints and wood sculpture from 1950 to 1994.
Cornell alumnus Jeffrey P. Parker will be honored by Cornell as the 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year. Parker has been credited with fundamentally changing the way information is transmitted in financial services and the corporate world. He will deliver a talk Friday, Oct. 12.
You are what you read. In our culture of mass media and information bombardment, it is the daily newspapers – and not the nightly television news programs – that motivate highly educated people into civic participation, according to researchers at Cornell and Ohio State University.