Comedian Whoopi Goldberg joked about aging, current politics and even poverty during her performance Oct. 28, during Cornell's First-Year Family Weekend. (November 01, 2005)
A combination of hard work, revisions of earlier writings, coincidence and swift turnarounds in publication led to Shawkat Toorawa's remarkable coup of four books in one academic year (November 01, 2005)
Cornell agronomist Jane Mt. Pleasant joins the likes of Maya Angelou, Bill Gates, Andy Goldsworthy, Wes Jackson, Yo-Yo Ma and E.O. Wilson as one of "35 People Who Made a Difference in the World" in the November 2005 issue of Smithsonian Magazine. (November 1, 2005)
More than 6,000 county residents -- about 9 percent -- are living below the poverty line, based on numbers provided by the Tompkins County planning department. (November 01, 2005)
Alberto Moreiras, professor of Romance studies at Duke University, will visit Cornell Nov. 1-7 for a series of lectures, as an invited fellow of the Society for the Humanities.
In the past half century, U.S. society has mutated into an impersonal, mechanistic and exploitive capitalist economy that 'acts like a robot and functions like a cancer,' poisoning our physical and mental well-being and exhausting the world's resources.
At the panel discussion 'Censor This!' on Oct. 24, eight panelists discussed the limits of free speech on campus after an article, 'The Color of Crime,' was published in the Cornell American.
Harold Craighead, professor of applied and engineering physics, and research assistant Rob Ilic have their research featured in the 2006 edition of 'The Guinness Book of World Records.'