Students in a new service learning course study the public health impacts of such hot-button local issues as the county jail expansion and whether Ithaca homeowners should be allowed to have backyard chicken coops.
Professor Andrew H. Bass has been named associate vice provost for research, effective June 1. Bass, professor of neurobiology and behavior, will review the animal care program, among other tasks.
Maria Cristina Garcia and alumnae Renee Alexander '74, Mary Berens '74 and Kristen Rupert '74 were elected honorary members of Sphinx Head recently for service to Cornell. (May 4, 2010)
Freshmen and incoming transfer students this fall will read and discuss French author Romain Gary's 1975 novel 'The Life Before Us' for the New Student Reading Project.
Keisha Hudson, Class of '99, writes what an outstanding teacher and human being Professor Don Barr was, helping her to voice her anger and organize grassroots efforts toward social change. (Feb. 4, 2008)
One year after the catastrophic damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, three lifelong residents of New Orleans will speak on a panel commem orating the anniversary of the storm that changed the Crescent City, and much of the Gulf…
The inside of a U.S. jail cell is what he has been looking at for the past 13 months, waiting for his asylum appeal to be ruled on. If he is deported to the Dominican Republic, he could be killed. He believes this because he has been threatened in jail, and thugs have made menacing remarks to his wife. For that reason, too, his name and location are not mentioned in this story. Two second-year law students, Ralph Mamiya and Kristin McNamara, have taken on his case through a Cornell University Law School course -- the Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic.
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Cornell President David Skorton addresses the Class of 2010, Aug. 19 in Barton Hall.
"I want to ask each student here to find a way to put yourself into an uncomfortable situation," said Cornell…
Six Cornell researchers will receive grants totaling more than
$3 million as part of the National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program.