The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded a $1.86 million grant to Cornell's Peace Studies Program to provide additional research and training in science and security studies.
While the fall edition of The Visible Hand -- the undergraduate journal of the Cornell Economics Society -- carries stories about trends in baseball salaries, rising home prices, globalization and the economic impact of catastrophic events.
Cornell's School of Hotel Administration and The Culinary Institute of America -- the top school of culinary arts -- have now teamed to offer a cooperative degree program that gives students the best of both worlds.
By unplugging equipment, turning off lights and shutting down computers before leaving for winter break in December, the campus community saved 3,200 kilowatts over the 10-day break.
Cornell researchers have improved a technique called association mapping that identifies the genetic origins of complex traits, from disease to crop yields to milk yields, controlled by multiple genes.
ILR Professor Samuel Bacharach's workplace stress survey found New York City transport workers were often exposed daily to workplace hazards and experienced traumatic incidents regularly.
'Form and Function in a Legal System: A General Study,' a new book by Cornell Law School Professor Robert Summers, overturns views of leading legal theorists. Published in January 2006 by Cambridge University Press.
Alan Pike, 65, a senior lecturer in communication who taught at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management for more than 25 years, died Jan. 7 in his Ithaca home.