Edward J. Lawler, dean of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and a scholar of organizational behavior, is the recipient of the 2001 Cooley-Mead Award.
Cornell and the Smithsonian Institution are expanding their collaboration to conserve endangered species, advise foreign governments on sustainable development and develop protocols to archive biological collections.
Cornell animal science students traveled to China in January for a two-week immersive journey to a country still developing the capacity to meet a growing appetite for dairy products.
Historian Richard Polenberg and five other faculty members gave New Student Reading Project lectures Aug. 21, on E.L. Doctorow's historical novel 'Homer and Langley.' (Aug. 23, 2011)
The big winner of the Big Idea competition went to two juniors for a technology-enhanced bed net that helps prevent malaria while using solar power to help residents charge cell phones and run fans. (April 18, 2011)
Who goes to college and why? The answer is important because education is an ever-important predictor for labor market success. Yet, social scientists know very little about the complex reasons why some students prepare to go to college and others do not.
While researching a book, faculty member George Hutchinson discovered the memoir of a woman who mingled with famous writers and artists in the 1920s and '30s, unbound by race or class.
In a new paper, Cornell's Steven Strogatz tries to quantify the commonsense concept of “correlated novelties” - that one new thing sometimes triggers another.
An expansion of Cornell Cooperative Extension's Harvest NY agriculture program allows the program to extend its economic development activities to support farmers in northern New York state.
The effects of childhood family disruptions -- such as parental divorce, long-term separation from biological parents, parental abandonment and foster care -- can reverberate into later life, says a Cornell sociologist.