Sometimes a mid-life crisis can teach a man how to keep both oars in the water for the rest of his life. Barry Strauss was 40 when he became obsessed with sculling after a summer rowing course.
On March 5 when A Living Wage by Lawrence Glickman rolled off the bindery, it made history at Cornell University Press. Never mind the content. What makes the book special is the paper.
The inspirations for the six original pieces to be performed at Dance Concert '97 at Cornell are as varied as the performers themselves -- who include a veterinary student and recent high school graduate. Cornell's Department of Theatre, Film and Dance will present its annual dance concert this weekend.
Witness, a Grammy-nominated singing quartet, will headline the 21st Annual Festival of Black Gospel at Cornell, Feb. 21 to 23. The festival is the centerpiece of the university's Black History Month celebration.
Parents of adopted children in New York are overwhelmingly in favor of laws that allow adult adoptees access to information in their birth certificates about their birth parents, according to a new Cornell study.
The seventh Cornell Council for the Arts Individual Grants exhibition opens Jan. 11 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell University campus. The exhibition features the work of nine artists who were awarded the grants in either 1992, 1993 or 1994.
Scientists from Cornell University's Eastern Europe-Mexico project for potato late blight control and from the Mlochow Research Center in Poland are leading an effort to save the valuable potato collection at the N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Industry in Pushkin and St. Petersburg, Russia.
Does exposure to certain pesticides increase the risk of breast cancer? Is there a link between childhood obesity and adult breast cancer? If human estrogen promotes some kinds of breast cancer, can phytoestrogens from plants possibly offer protection?
Surveying aquatic life from the Great Lakes to small ponds, ecologists at Cornell and the Institute of Ecosystem Studies have found that food-chain length — the number of mouths food passes through on the way to the top predators — is determined by the size of an ecosystem, not by the amount of available food energy.
Local and state government officials are learning that factors such as skilled labor, strong infrastructure and good schools provide more incentive than tax subsidies for businesses to start up or relocate to New York, according to a Cornell report by graduate researchers delivered on May 29.