What can law students learn from a Harvard University literary critic about the moral legality of questionable detention practices in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo? Quite a lot, if she's Elaine Scarry, an outspoken critic of…
Through a dense jungle of cables and a labyrinth of computer terminals in an office perched at the top of an ivy-covered law school, the Legal Information Institute at Cornell uses the World Wide Web to spread legal knowledge to county planners in rural areas.
The Cornell Women's Resource Center (CWRC), a student organization, will hold a fund- raiser on campus to support the Ithaca Breast Cancer Alliance April 27-29.
Editor's picks for the week of Feb. 13 include swing dancing, chamber music by faculty, a movie sneak preview and a panel offering economic advice to President Barack Obama. (Feb. 12, 2009)
The Cornell Life Sciences Core Laboratories Center provides an array of instruments and services for experimentation on genomics, proteomics, imaging, IT and informatics. (June 25, 2008)
The international Biophysical Society has awarded undergraduate Moataz Gadalla '07 a Minority Travel Award to attend the society's 51st annual meeting in Baltimore. (Feb. 5, 2007)
Good deeds do get noticed. For exemplary enthusiasm in volunteering throughout the community, the staff of Cornell University's Organizational Development Services (ODS) will receive the 2003 Community Service Award from the Cornell Business and Technology Park. The ODS group will receive a plaque July 18 at 5:30 p.m. at the Pond Pavilion on Thornwood Drive. In addition to the plaque, $1,000 each will be donated in the department's honor to the Community Dispute Resolution Center and to the Women's Opportunity Center. The ODS is part of Cornell's Office of Human Resources. (July 14, 2003)
Carrie Dann, elder and founder of the Western Shoshone Defense Project, doesn't look like a poster child for civil disobedience. With her salt-and-pepper hair and thick glasses she hardly fits the role of a hard-nosed human…
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Gardeners tending even the most modest pea patches know it's a jungle out there when it comes to managing weeds. But a new two-volume CD-ROM set, developed and produced by a Cornell University weed scientist, provides comprehensive, user-friendly instruction whether you're weeding a backyard garden or landscaping a golf course. The innovative program, now available to the public, is humbly titled "Weed Identification, Biology and Management," and it's an encyclopedic tour de plantes of more than 100 Northeastern weed species. "You don't have to be a botanist or a taxonomist to understand the program; it's practical and accessible to just about anyone," said Antonio DiTommaso, Cornell assistant professor of weed science in the university's Department of Crop and Soil Sciences. "We're hoping this CD package helps people to learn more about these often strikingly beautiful plants, which at times interfere with our activities." (July 6, 2004)
The president of a migrant farmworkers union and a leader of a community organization helping poor and moderate-income families in post-Katrina New Orleans are among the featured speakers at Union Days 2006. The annual event,…