Scholars and collectors interested in African art have long focused their attention on traditional works -- particularly the wooden sculptures and ethnographic artifacts that may be seen in today's Western museums and are described in mainstream art history textbooks.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings will preside over the university's 128th commencement on Sunday, May 26, at 11 a.m. on Schoellkopf Field. In his first commencement ceremony since assuming the Cornell presidency on July 1, 1995, Rawlings will confer degrees on almost 6,000 eligible graduates.
Louise Moser Illes helped implement the downsizing process that closed a factory and put her and 900 coworkers out of a job. In January 1992, Illes (pronounced ILL-liss), a human resources manager, was notified along with her coworkers that the semiconductor plant where she worked would shut down by year's end.
The world's smallest guitar — carved out of crystalline silicon and no larger than a single cell — has been made at Cornell University to demonstrate a new technology that could have a variety of uses in fiber optics, displays, sensors and electronics.
Betty Friedan would like to develop a quality of life measure -- let's call it QOL -- similar to economic measures like the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that we've created to plumb our nation's economic health.
Behind every famous web site, from Amazon to Priceline, is a common-sense idea that somehow no one thought of before. The genius behind the Legal Information Institute (LII), Cornell's most-accessed web site, is that its authors correctly guessed there were millions of people out there who needed to know U.S. laws and court decisions.
Colonial Latin America. Latin American Women Writers. Bandits, Deviants and Rebels in Latin America. Labor in Developing Economies. One glance at the course listing in the brochure for Cornell's new concentration in Latin American studies reveals the breadth of this program, now available to undergraduates.
Substances that are poisonous to animals can now be subjected to the same chemical scrutiny given to materials in high-profile human cases - including the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
President Hunter Rawlings outlined a seven-point plan of action for campus residential housing that provides a unifying educational experience for new students, preserves most student choice in housing and continues the current range of housing options.
A five-year, $27 million upgrade to the world's most sensitive radio/radar telescope at Arecibo Observatory will be dedicated on Saturday, June 14. The telescope, the world's largest single antenna radio telescope (305 meter, or 1,000 foot) and the world's most powerful radar.