The Atkinson Center is awarding more than $1.3 million in seed grants to support roughly a dozen interdisciplinary research collaborations at Cornell that address key sustainability challenges.
Juvenile offenders sentenced to life without parole in the state of South Carolina recently won the right to new sentencing hearings, thanks to Cornell Law School efforts.
The creation of a degree program called Healthier Life, designed to connect health care professionals and technologists, was announced Dec. 4 at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech.
New postgraduate fellowships, named for Frank H.T. Rhodes and funded by a $5 million gift from The Atlantic Philanthropies, will further research in the Law School and Cornell Population Program.
Building on the hire of five new faculty members including four senior scholars, the Africana Studies and Research Center has added courses ranging from the politics of hip-hop to black feminists theories. (April 30, 2009)
Would having more information about the value of a product - say, a new camera - help potential buyers? Not necessarily, according to a Cornell economist.
The McNair Scholars Program, which seeks to increase the number of first-generation, low-income or underrepresented students in doctoral programs, inducted 15 new members April 11.
A collegial family has grown at Cornell during the course of research and programs devoted to The Evolving Family, the 2004-07 theme project sponsored by the Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS).
"There are a huge number of…