'Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities' is a new book with first author Ron Ehrenberg that looks at attrition and completion rates in humanities Ph.D. programs. (Oct. 15, 2009)
Every spring, the Tibetan refugee community in Ithaca celebrates its culture and history. This year Cornell University is joining the celebration with Tibet Weeks, a series of events from Monday, April 7, through Saturday April 19. The Cornell East Asia Program and Students for a Free Tibet have scheduled Tibetan-related films, guest speakers and family-oriented events. The program is designed to celebrate Tibetan culture while educating the public on the continuing political and social concerns of the Tibetan community here and abroad. (April 8, 2003)
Professor Steve Strogatz was honored for outstanding achievement in communicating about mathematics to nonmathematicians Jan. 6 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans. (Jan. 8, 2007)
Through DesignConnect, Cornell graduate and undergraduate students work in interdisciplinary teams to solve design problems for upstate New York communities.
Cornell Cooperative Extension and National 4-H Week will be celebrated from Sept. 30 through Oct. 7 on the Cornell campus and at events around Tompkins County. This year's theme is "Strengthening the Economic and Social Vitality of Communities."
The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy has awarded a $1.6 million grant to the ILR School's technical assistance center for employers on employment of people with disabilities. (Oct. 6, 2009)
Cornell and Ithaca-area communities can help others cope with the oncoming cold by contributing new and used outerwear to the 15th Annual 'Share the Warmth' campaign through Dec. 2. (Nov. 19, 2007)
A multistate research group that includes Ramona Heck of Cornell University has been named winner of a prestigious award for its research on family businesses.
Cornell biologists have shown how chemicals produced in a core region of the brain shared by all vertebrate animals (including humans) make males act like males, females like females -- and some males something like females.