Humanists from across the country, including Cornell President-elect David J. Skorton and Provost Biddy Martin, will meet in Philadelphia May 12 at a national colloquium convened by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS…
Do the humanities have to be useful? As you might expect, Cornell faculty members and students can concoct a wide range of creative responses to a question like that.
Eighteen essays about the humanities have been published in a…
Millions of bytes of data now streaming to Cornell from the massive Internet Archive will give social and information scientists an unprecedented playing field for research into social networks, sociology department chair Michael…
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin has announced the reappointment of Sarah E. Thomas as the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian for a five-year term, beginning July 1.
"Sarah Thomas' contributions to Cornell have been profound,…
Betty Friedan's life and Cornell connection celebrated. The occasion for these tributes was the celebration of Friedan's life, April 24 at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). Sponsored by the Provost's Office, the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) program and the ILR School.
NEW YORK -- To shut one's eyes was to be transported back to a dark table in a corner of the El Morocco nightclub during the late 1930s. The mournful yet soaring opening of "Rhapsody in Blue," played by jazz virtuoso Al Gallodoro…
NEW YORK (May 3, 2006) -- Breakthrough discoveries are pushing back the origins of Alzheimer's disease to an early breakdown in trafficking within brain cells, according to researchers at the Weill Medical College of Cornell…
With no current infrastructure to recycle the plastics used in agriculture, thousands of tons are burned, buried and dumped each year. The result: Dioxins and other hazardous toxicants are getting into the food chain and air, and…