A committee of City of Ithaca and Cornell stakeholders met Feb. 7 to review preliminary conceptual options to potentially improve the safety of bridges spanning high gorges. (Feb. 9, 2011)
National Endowment for the Humanities Chair William Adams spoke on the past and future of the humanities in Klarman Hall Feb. 24. He said this is a moment of increasing pressure for the field.
Research fellow Nimat Hafez Barazangi said Muslim women can use the Quran to build a stronger identity for themselves in Muslim societies at a talk at Cornell Sept. 16. (Sept. 22, 2010)
Condensed matter physicist Neil W. Ashcroft, the Horace White Professor of Physics emeritus, has been elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. (June 30, 2008)
Four generations of punk luminaries will gather at Cornell Nov. 1-5 for a weeklong celebration of the cultural, political and historical impact of punk.
Harry Segal, senior lecturer in psychology, lectured to a large New York City audience on 'What is Psychotherapy (and how does it work)?' at One Day University Jan. 22. (Jan. 31, 2011)
Chronic stress from noise, crowding, family conflict and other factors appears to be another reason why children in low-income families don't fare as well as their middle-income counterparts. (Jan. 31, 2011)
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the USDA Oct. 3 convened leaders in farming, government, academia and private enterprise to discuss land tenure and next-generation agriculture.
The Institute for European Studies at Cornell has awarded five grants to K-12 teachers in upstate New York through its Teacher Grant for Developing a Curriculum Unit on Europe program. (Sept. 5, 2007)
The Senior Leaders Climate Action Group's report includes a financial analysis and feasibility study that would allow the university to make decisions based on costs and benefits in the context of its academic mission.