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.
On Campus Sustainability Day, Oct. 20, CALS will launch CALS Green, an energy conservation and sustainability initiative to promote environmentally conscientious behavior among students, faculty and staff. (Sept. 27, 2010)
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.
Constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law at the University of California, Berkeley, addressed the topic of free speech on campus Nov. 20 in Alice Statler Auditorium.
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.
Events on campus this week include Insectapalooza; a new exhibit; Parents' Weekend concerts; lectures by William Dudley, Spencer Wells and Michael Silverblatt; and the State of the University Address. (Oct. 21, 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.
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.
A new study helps untangle how marriage, gender and ethnicity are related to body weight. The study of almost 8,000 men and women will be published in the journal Obesity. (Dec. 1, 2009)
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.