When victims of capital crimes are white, jurors are more likely to hand down death sentences to defendants with stereotypically black features, a new study from four universities, including Cornell, shows.
The study, "Looking…
Almost every research grant these days includes an "outreach" component: As a condition of their federal government funding, researchers are expected to inform the public about their findings and support science and technology…
After a quick introduction by Peter Lepage, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell professor of psychology Tom Gilovich began his Reunion Weekend lecture on "The Fallibility of Everyday Thinking," June 9, with a…
G. Nick Lundskowhilip Merrill
Cornell benefactor Philip Merrill '55, international statesman and adviser to U.S. and Cornell presidents, is missing and presumed dead after disappearing Saturday, June 10, during a solitary sail on…
Cornell University is greatly saddened by the loss of devoted alumnus Philip Merrill '55 and sends heartfelt sympathies to Eleanor Merrill, Douglas Merrill '89, MBA '91, Catherine Merrill '91 and Nancy Merrill '96. Phil's long…
If you need a good picture of a molecule, your first job is getting its atoms to pose for you, says John Silcox, Cornell's David E. Burr Professor of Engineering and an expert in the realm of the very tiny.
But atoms are not…
The first genocide of the 21st century is taking place under our noses in Darfur, and it's "your job" to stop it, a passionate Nicholas Kristof told an audience of about 700 in Bartels Hall June 9 during Reunion Weekend.
"They…
At just past 11 a.m. June 10, all heaven broke loose from Cornell's McGraw Tower. An exhilaration of festive chimes music titled "Hell's Bells" flushed a robin from its chilly perch, drew clusters of Cornell-red-bedecked alumni…
"I've been a scientist, so I look at graphs all the time, and I think they're beautiful," said Jenifer Wightman '02. So she, a researcher in crop and soil sciences with the eye of an artist, asked Cornell faculty and staff members to send her their own examples of "important, meaningful or remarkable charts, graphs, maps, diagrams or tables.
Cornell's Class of 1971 was witness to an especially tumultuous era of campus unrest, peaking with the takeover of Willard Straight Hall by black student activists on April 19, 1969.
During a Reunion Weekend forum, June 9 in…