Scholars will address risk - in areas ranging from epidemiology to literature to the housing crisis - at a Society for the Humanities conference, Oct. 26-27. (Oct. 25, 2012)
Elisabeth Stern '09 has been won the 2008 Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award from the Campus Compact for 'extraordinary commitment to improving local and global communities.' (June 17, 2008)
Ralph D. Christy, professor of emerging markets in the Department of Applied Economics Management, has been named the new director of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development. (March 30, 2009)
To help introduce new members of the university's faculty to the Cornell community, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles for the 2013-14 academic year.
Cornell statistician Paul Velleman explained the various methods researchers use to sift through the enormous amounts of data being generated, April 21, in a talk for Math Awareness Month. (April 25, 2012)
Cornell poets are tweeting their work to promote and connect with readers for Poetry in Your Pocket, an annual event taking place in New York City April 26. (April 24, 2012)
Cornell researchers have developed a tool that can distinguish between normal cognitive declines in healthy older people and declines related to Alzheimer disease.
Homecoming Weekend’s Oct. 17 fireworks-dance-party-history-lesson-laser-paced-celebratory-throng in Schoellkopf Stadium did more than kick off the 150th-year observances for Cornell in Ithaca.
The university system increasingly resembles a corporate or business enterprise for a variety of reasons, largely economic but also societal. While this shift has benefited many academic units in terms of resource allocation, it has tended to marginalize the humanities and social sciences, say leading academic humanists.