The hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, where Paul Rusesabagina sheltered 1,200 people in 1994 has the picturesque name Des Mille Collines -- French for 1,000 hills.
How do children influence their parents' eating habits? Can a polymer be used to deactivate chemical warfare agents? What are the differences in how jurors process information in criminal trials?
Rigorous scholarly reflection on vital matters of social consequence has been a hallmark of Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center's educational mission from the outset 35 years ago.
The 2005 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony at Cornell will be awarded to the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Committee during a ceremony and reception April 29.
Woo-Suk Hwang a professor at Seoul National University in South Korea, and his colleague Professor Seung Keun Kang spoke this week with Cornell faculty and students about their groundbreaking animal and human stem cell research.
Distinguished scholars of both intellectual and cultural history will gather to discuss the current and future state of their fields in relation to leading-edge currents in critical theory during a Department of History conference.
What can you do in four years? How about finding a lifelong passion and researching it with feverish intensity -- just as members of the graduating class of Cornell Presidential Research Scholars (CPRS) have done.
A two-year, $200,000 grant from the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR) will help a Cornell mechanical engineer design smaller, faster and cheaper devices for processing and producing proteins.