BALTIMORE -- A Cornell University economist is calling for the adoption of a progressive consumption tax over the controversial flat tax proposal as a way of curing America's most pressing economic ills: income inequality and slow growth.
NEW YORK -- New York City hosts its fair share of art exhibits, fashion shows and Fifth Avenue parades. But when it's an art exhibit at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations in New York City (ILR-NYC), Cornell Design League's New York City debut show or the Big Red Band marching down Fifth Avenue after a Columbia football game, Big Red in the city takes note. Cornell and Cornellians are all over the city, on and off the New York City "campus." The Cornell University-New York City (CU-NYC) campus stretches from the southern tip of Manhattan, up the island to Lenox Hill on the Upper East Side.
The course, held at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, seeks to encourage bright, young scientists to consider careers bridging research with applications in developing nations. (July 17, 2008)
GUANACASTE, Costa Rica -- Xavier Torres began working as a cook while he was an undergraduate more than a decade ago, but his career has really been cooking since he earned his master's of management in hospitality (MMH) degree…
Events this week include BOOM, showcasing student tech research; a lecture on C.S. Lewis, a debate on fracking, an electronic music symposium, statistician Nate Silver and Anonymous 4 in Sage Chapel.
Publication in the journal Nature is a coup for any research team, but Weill Cornell Medical College investigators have earned recognition in the journal four times in recent months with landmark findings.
A plateau on Mars known as Home Plate was likely the site of explosive volcanic activity, say scientists. And data collected by the rover Spirit also offers further evidence that water was once present at or beneath the planet's surface. (May 8, 2007)
Some 150 scholars of Asia will convene at Cornell University Oct. 26 and 27 for the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS). The conference is open to the public, but registration is required.
The hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, where Paul Rusesabagina sheltered 1,200 people in 1994 has the picturesque name Des Mille Collines -- French for 1,000 hills.
Cornell officially strengthened its already sizable New York City presence Sept. 13 with the dedication of the glittering, futuristic Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island.