The Eclectic Convergence Entrepreneurship Summit, held Nov. 8 in New York City, drew 550 attendees for TED-style talks from entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, plus lots of networking.
Christine Leuenberger, who also has studied the Berlin Wall and Korea's demilitarized zone, was awarded a Fulbright Scholar research grant to study the social and cultural ramifications of the West Bank barrier. (Nov. 6, 2007)
Economist Nicolas Ziebarth, assistant professor of policy analysis and management in the College of Human Ecology, has received two awards for his research on health economics. (Sept. 27, 2011)
Old treasures from Cornell’s archives are starting new digital lives through the Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences, which is funding seven projects this year.
'Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class' by the ILR School's Jefferson Cowie has won the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. (April 19, 2011)
Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences has announced the recipients of its biannual small grant award for interdisciplinary research and conference support among other efforts. (Nov. 12, 2007)
In the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, Feb. 11 in Sage Chapel, Bree Newsome recalled the events leading up to her removing a Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds in 2015.
The international symposium, 'Rice and Language Across Asia,' Sept. 22-25 on campus, will examine the relationships between crops, language and socio-cultural developments in early Southeast Asia. (Sept. 19, 2011)
Researchers have identified regions of a fish brain that reveal the basic circuitry for how all vertebrates, including humans, generate sound used for social communication.