Cayuga Community College conferred 16 associate's degrees to Five Points Correctional Facility inmates in the Cornell Prison Education Program at a ceremony May 24, where nine Cornell Certificates in Liberal Arts were also awarded.
A central claim of the open access movement is that citations increase when articles are freely available. A new study finds the claim is false. (April 13, 2011)
The Dairy Foods Extension team received the inaugural Food Safety Leadership Award from the International Dairy Foods Association Jan. 30 for the team's work to enhance food safety.
Thinking in pictures and shapes – rather than mere words – will lead to improved consumer sensory memories about wine, said Kathryn LaTour at the inaugural Women of the Vine symposium, held in March at Napa, California.
Climate change could force 100 million people to lose their homes; entire countries will be underwater, according to the documentary 'Climate Refugees' and an Oct. 14 panel discussion. (Oct. 18, 2010)
A new study finds that trauma leaves an imprint on the brain that alters how we process information and emotion, perhaps making us more attuned to subsequent negative occurrences.
Cornell will celebrate its 144th Graduation Weekend. The Senior Convocation Address will be given by Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, May 26.
The ILR School's Maria Lorena Cook is teaching a course titled The Mexican Revolution at 100: Politics, Economy and Society, which examines the nation's present and past. (Oct. 28, 2010)
Cornell’s Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies will administer at $370,000, two-year grant from the MacArthur Foundation to further its studies.
They are theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed, evolutionary biologist David Hillis, cheetah expert Laurie Marker, science writer Andrew Revkin and Duncan Watts, Ph.D. '97.