While many final projects at Cornell this semester involve producing a research paper, students in Brenda Bricker's Leadership in the Nonprofit Environment (HumEc 407) class get to give away money.
As part of the course, which…
On P.S. 84's rooftop in New York City, students tend an herb garden and share the harvest with school staff and others in their lunchroom. At an elementary school in Van Etten, N.Y., second-graders grow their own "vegetable soup"…
When people ask author and linguist Deborah Tannen, What is it about mothers and daughters and why do they have so many problems, especially since they are both women, the answer she gives them is, "Because they're both women." …
Some 500 Internet message boards are bringing together adolescents who injure themselves -- with cuts, carvings, scratches or burns. It is a world that is invisible to adults but of increasing importance to teenage social lives. …
Acid rain, the environmental consequence of burning fossil fuels, running factories and driving cars, has altered soils and reduced the number of sugar maple trees growing in the Northeast, according to a new study led by Cornell researchers.
Music Professor David Rosen, a noted Giuseppe Verdi expert who retires from Cornell at the end of this semester, will be honored by former students and past and current colleagues at an all-day symposium. The event, "The…
ProvidedTrenchmaster Vronwy Hankey and foreman Antonis Zidianakis excavate storage jars from the Minoan settlement Myrtos-Pyrgos. The jars were analyzed in the Cornell study using radiocarbon analyses.
Separated in history by 100…
Kent L. Hubbell '67 has been reappointed to a second five-year term as Cornell's Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students.
The reappointment, announced by Vice President for Student and Academic Services Susan H…
For the virulent H5N1 strain of avian flu to establish itself on U.S. soil via wild birds, a string of events must come together, none of which can be predicted, according to experts at Cornell's Lab of Ornithology.
They are…