Twenty years ago, the most popular video games were made by teenage computer gurus in their spare time. With a knack for computer programming and some enthusiasm, anybody could be making the next best game.
Not anymore. The video…
Some people are driven to enter the corporate world, but others dedicate their professional lives to the pursuit of social justice. To give students a feel for the latter, 13 prominent labor leaders and activists made it through…
Christopher Reeve's mother, Barbara Johnson, unveils the plaque dedicated to her son at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Nov. 18, while John Foote, president of the Class of 1974, looks on.
Genevieve Quist, who graduated from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) in 2005, has been awarded a 2007 Rhodes Scholarship. She will begin her master's in philosophy degree in comparative social…
University PhotographyStudent bloggers, from left, Jennifer Lin '09, Jenna Bromberg '08 and Caroline Dias '08 are part of a pilot project meant to give prospective students and parents a representative picture of student life…
Cornell has announced plans for a new gas delivery line that will help Cornell reduce its overall "greenhouse" gas emissions by more than 20 percent as well as cut down on its use of coal, while delivering the necessary heat and…
For travelers going over the river and through the woods to celebrate Thanksgiving 2006, the best probability of seeing snow on the ground Nov. 23 in the Northeast is in Boonville, N.Y., which has a 54 percent chance of snow,…
A world that is too small to see is going to seem a bit bigger when visitors get a chance to interact with, build, play and watch molecules in an interactive exhibit, "Too Small to See," at Epcot's Innoventions at Walt Disney World.
David Kent Wyatt, a well-known expert on Thailand and a professor of Southeast Asian history at Cornell for 33 years, died Nov. 15 at the Hospicare Residence in Ithaca. He was 69 and had battled multiple sclerosis for several…
Cornell researchers have built a robot that works out its own model of itself and can revise the model to adapt to injury. First, it teaches itself to walk. Then, when damaged, it teaches itself to limp.