Entomologist May Berenbaum, department head at the University of Illinois, discussed the lack of women in her field April 3 as part of the two-day Frontiers Symposium of leading women life scientists.
Thanks to a $25,000 library grant, 225 talks from the Cornell Lecture Tapes Collection - including talks by Jacques Derrida, Toni Morrison and Timothy Leary - have been digitized and are publicly available online.
Cornell clinical law professor William A. Jacobson's talk on the Tea Party generated a heated discussion at the Cornell Club in Manhattan Sept. 19. (Sept. 21, 2011)
The Internet has dramatically boosted the power of citizen science - creating opportunities in science and education across disciplines, said Janis Dickinson, Feb. 20 at the annual AAAS meeting.
Events on campus and in Ithaca include exhibits at the Johnson Museum, Uris Hall and Mann and Olin libraries; a community-wide exploration of human origins, and the first Soup and Hope of 2017.
New research finds that while subjects in a nationwide survey identified happiness as a goal, other goals - such as a higher income - may lead them to choose money over happiness. (Sept. 16, 2011)