A new program lets students earn law and Ph.D. degrees in six years. A Human Ecology program in psychology and human development complements law studies. (Sept. 6, 2011)
For the third year running, U.S. News and World Report ranked Cornell's graduate engineering, overall, as the 10th best in the nation. (March 15, 2012)
Associate Professor George Malliaras was one of five scientists to receive the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Sciences. (Nov. 16, 2007)
What can corporate-bound MBA students learn from trainers with the Ruckus Society, which normally teaches nonviolent social action techniques to anti-corporate activists? Apparently plenty. On Sept. 22, 40 students in senior lecturer Jan Katz's World Geopolitics class at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management spent five hours learning from three staff members of the Oakland, Calif.-based organization. The Ruckus Society, which grew out of a drive to protect federal forests from corporate interests in 1995, teaches environmental and human rights groups how to run effective social action campaigns, including such high-visibility techniques as hanging from billboards to get their message heard. (October 21, 2002)
Vice President Susan Murphy '73, Ph.D. '94, reflected on the place of gratitude in her life and in recent research to an audience of about 150 at the latest Soup and Hope gathering, Feb. 14.
A new course offers fraternity and sorority leaders the tools to educate their organizations' new members in a healthy way. It is one of several efforts under way aimed at ending hazing at Cornell. (Sept. 5, 2012)
Do children of cohabitating families fare worse than children in married families? Do children in stepfather families show more symptoms of depression and risk-taking behaviors than children in single-mother families?
Presenting a University Lecture March 6, scholar Lori Ginzberg explained that the legacy of Elizabeth Cady Stanton is complex because of her elitism and racism. (March 7, 2012)
Events on campus include TV stars Laverne Cox and Henry Winkler; electronic music with visual accompaniment at Cornell Cinema; and the Dyson Women in Leadership Summit.