The National Staff Development and Training Association (NSDTA) has given its Quality Award for 2006 to the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) curriculum, which is part of the Residential Child Care Project in the Family Life…
A Cornell group of agricultural and biological engineers received a Superior Paper Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ASABE) in July for their paper's "exceptional merit" in contributing…
Robert Barker/University PhotographyCornell President David Skorton helps 4-H members fill "hero packs" with supplies as part of Operation Military Kids, Aug. 24 at the New York State Fair. Shown with the president, from left,…
The first formal public event to be held in the newly renovated and refurbished Bailey Hall will be a scholarly kickoff to the inauguration of David J. Skorton as Cornell's 12th president.
Robert Kagan, a senior associate in the…
Common scientific wisdom posits that a diverse ecosystem can still thrive if a species within it declines. But a new study found that when just one important species in a river declined, the ecosystem was seriously changed and…
It has been said that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, altered the course of U.S. history. Exactly five years later -- on Sept. 11, 2006 -- Cornell faculty members will offer relevant perspectives to this tragedy in a…
Can money buy happiness? The question, posed by Cornell economist Robert Frank to hundreds of incoming freshmen in a panel discussion in Barton Hall on Sunday, Aug. 20, was provoked by his reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925…
Like many of the 16 new Cornell students in the room with her, Robin Davisson first read "The Great Gatsby" in high school. On re-reading the book, she found she had something in common with the students, as well as with F. Scott…
On Monday morning, July 10, David Skorton's Day Hall office was nearly bare: clean white walls, empty bookshelves, subdued olive and beige furniture and the light smell of fresh paint. Just a few personal touches had crept in --…
Some rarely seen symbols of office will emerge from university vaults for Cornell President David J. Skorton's inauguration. The symbolism dates back to the first inauguration on Oct. 7, 1868, when New York Lt. Gov. Stewart L…