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…
"Caddy-It," a storage bag that attaches to a walker for the elderly or infirm, won top honors for its creators, Lorena Alvarez '08 and Heather Burkman '08, at the annual Undergraduate Business Idea Competition, held Nov. 4.
Five…
This Decade of Challenge article looks at Cornell's strategies to minimize the dangers of student alcohol and drug use, with education, enforcement, health services and other initiatives.
Cornell is hosting a two-day conference and symposium, "Native Water Law and Public Policy: Critical Issues in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Watersheds," Friday and Saturday, Nov. 17 and 18, in Myron Taylor Hall, Rooms G85 and…
We are moving from a welfare state to a welfare planet, predicted former Cornell President Jeffrey S. Lehman, Nov. 9 in Bache Hall, in one of his first formal scholarly presentations on campus.
Lehman's early academic life was to…