Cornell researchers brought their voices and expertise to COP 16 (the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's 16th Conference of Parties) in Cancun, Mexico, Nov. 29-Dec. 10. (Jan. 10, 2011)
Cornell economist Steven Kyle predicts that 2010 will bring flat growth, high unemployment rates unlikely to budge, and continued turmoil in the housing market. (Dec. 9, 2009)
At the third annual Faculty Institute for Diversity June 13-16, 19 faculty members learned about new ways to incorporate elements of diversity into the courses they teach. (June 28, 2010)
Parents' education and income, as opposed to school funding, are better predictors of a student's success, says Cornell sociologist Stephen Morgan. (Sept. 9, 2008)
Sara Horowitz, ILR '84, founder of Working Today, a union for flexible workers, delivered the Iscol Family Program lecture on the need for new kinds of unions, Sept. 8. (Sept. 9, 2008)
Prince Turki Al-Faisal, ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United States from 2005 to 2007, traced the more than 80-year relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia in an April 23 lecture. (April 24, 2009)
Over spring break a group of students worked with children in Tangelo Park, Fla., where they were hosted by Harris Rosen '61. Rosen has offered to fund college for high school graduates in that neighborhood. (April 20, 2009)
A panel of five Cornell and Ithaca experts on various sides of the health care debate discussed the issue Nov. 17 in Goldwin Smith Hall's Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium. (Nov. 19, 2009)
The Sick in America series begins April 20 and will highlight issues of health care from the perspectives of physicians, patients, economists and policymakers.
Cornell researchers found that as few as three 'co-locations' on a photo-sharing site could predict that two people were socially connected. The results have implications for online privacy. (Dec. 8, 2010)