Much of the research and discovery in biological science is now taking place at the interface of the life sciences with other disciplines, from materials science to computer engineering.
NEW YORK -- Amandeep Singh, a fourth-year M.D./Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medical College student in the Tri-Institutional Medical Scientist Training Program affiliated with Rockefeller University and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer…
Bolivian writer Jose Edmundo Paz-Soldan, a professor of Hispanic literature in the Department of Romance Studies, is helping young and emerging Latino and Latin American writers at Cornell. (Jan. 16, 2012)
Spectacle and showmanship filled Willard Straight Hall's Memorial Room April 13, as 'Awkward Circus' presented a variety of acts reflecting student life, from jugglers to a burlesque routine. (April 16, 2009)
Cornell will serve as one of the viewing sites for the 17th annual World Food Day teleconference, "Poverty and Hunger: The Tragic Link," featuring a conversation with Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics. This year's teleconference examines the complex relationship between hunger and poverty.
Virginia V. Valian, professor of psychology and linguistics at Hunter College and author of Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women, will give a lecture on women in academic careers Friday, April 1, at noon in the James Law Auditorium, College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. Valian, who also is the co-director of the Hunter College Gender Equity Project, will draw on psychology, sociology, economics and neuropsychology to examine the invisible barriers and explain the disparity in salary, rank and rates of promotion for men and women in the professions, science and academia.
Applied economics and management students who put their small business skills to the test last semester have received awards for outstanding work in their Small Business Management Workshop class. (Jan. 22, 2007)
It was called the Jazz Age and the Roaring '20s, a time when bootleggers peddled bathtub gin, flappers danced the Charleston and there was money to burn. The 1920s was a profligate postwar time rife with wild indulgence, and it…
Cornell Cooperative Extension is leading the largest effort ever to restore native shellfish populations to Long Island, rejuvenating its waters and improving its maritime ecosystem and economy.