The National Science Foundation Jan. 7 announced a new $10 million award to Computer Science Professor Carla Gomes to support transformative computing and technology research.
After 40 years of leadership, teaching and scholarship at Cornell, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein retires in May. At an April 22, event she was honored for her work with the Cornell Prison Education Program.
To determine effective tobacco warning labels, five Cornell faculty members will receive a five-year, $3 million federal grant to examine how anti-smoking messages can affect youth, and low-income and low-education groups.
Cornell design and environmental analysis students, working with architects and college administrators, conceived and built two new classrooms for the digital age in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
Findings by Cornell researcher Corinna Loeckenhoff and her former graduate student, Joshua Rutt, suggest that chronological age is associated with greater self-continuity over multiple time frames.
With the CU-ADVANCE Center's five-year grant period drawn to a close, its leaders point to the many ways its goals have been met, but also what more needs to be done.
Facing retirements of traditionalists and baby-boomers, Cornell, like other universities, strives to meet the needs of four generations in the workplace. (May 20, 2010)
Assaf Razin, the Friedman Professor of International Economics, released two new books in November. One is on global financial crises, the other compares U.S. and EU welfare policies.
Dealing with controversy, and consulting with the right constituencies, are part of the job of leading a university, Interim President Hunter Rawlings told students as guest lecturer in the class Economics of the University.
The School of Criticism and Theory immerses participants in a broad range of topics in the humanities and social sciences, from poetry, art and literary history to political science and cultural movements. (July 14, 2009)