How do organizations get workers onto the 'road less taken' when most people will choose the roads they know will pay off? Cornell researchers have found that incentives for trying something new may work.
A March 7 forum on campus recognized 35 students who were nominated by faculty members as 'Cornell changemakers' - people who are working to make a difference internationally. (March 10, 2009)
Jazz Spaces Ithaca, a series of performances that will bring prominent jazz players to Ithaca, will take place throughout the 2012-13 academic year. (Aug. 31, 2012)
David Harris, professor of sociology and senior associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, reflected on his 15 months at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a talk Sept. 9. (Sept. 13, 2011)
To celebrate the opening of the Cornell University Library archive honoring synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog, Ph.D. ’65, the university is hosting “When Machines Rock: A Celebration of Robert Moog and Electronic Music,” March 5-7.
Anthropologist Stacey Langwick will use a National Science Foundation grant to study how new global intellectual property policies affect ownership of traditional medicine in Tanzania.
A team of interdisciplinary researchers from Cornell and Ithaca College will study architecture and social interaction in an early civilization on Cyprus in a federally funded four-year project. (Sept. 29, 2009)
After recalling an upsetting event, thinking about your mother or romantic partner can make you feel better and reduce your negative thinking, according to a new Cornell study. (June 25, 2012)
Two esteemed Cornell scholar-historians used examples from two Cornell presidencies to illustrate the immense challenge of the role, during an Oct. 16 Trustee-Council Annual Meeting presentation.
The difficulty of finding a job in the current economy when a candidate has the additional handicap of a criminal record was the focus at the Richard Netter Conference, Oct. 9 in New York City. (Oct. 23, 2009)