A $5 million gift from Samuel C. Johnson will give global environmental sustainability issues more prominence in MBA studies at Cornell University. The gift is the latest among many given to Cornell by Johnson, chairman emeritus of S.C. Johnson and Son of Racine, Wis., and a Cornell alumnus. His $20 million gift to the Johnson School in 1984, made with his family and company, is the foundation of the school's current endowment. Johnson earned his A.B. degree at Cornell in 1950. (December 3, 2003)
Computer scientist David Steurer has been awarded a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship to support research to find the "laws of efficient computation," which might lead to a new way to solve many very hard problems.
Events on campus this week include a celebration of poetry and languages, Yamatai's Pulse concert and Rhythms of China, avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs and a lecture on the history of Polish Jews.
Can money buy happiness? The question, posed by Cornell economist Robert Frank to hundreds of incoming freshmen in a panel discussion in Barton Hall on Sunday, Aug. 20, was provoked by his reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925…
The future of New York agriculture, aided by Cornell research and expertise, look bright according to farmers and food processors at the "NY Loves Food" event Oct. 14 in Geneva.
Although self-help organizations have long suspected that "it takes one to help one" might be true, new Cornell University research shows that social contact with people who have been through the same life change crisis are, by far, the most helpful.
The Cornell law professor has expertise in the Middle East, northern Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. The Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East was formerly called the Clarke Middle East Fund. (Jan. 12, 2009)
Cornell President David Skorton urged the 700 health economists at the American Society of Health Economists conference on campus June 20-23 to promote health care reform. (June 24, 2010)
Aiming to correct imbalances, extension expert Emerson Hasbrouck testified before the U.S. Senate on federal rules that put New York's commercial fishermen at a disadvantage.