At the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium Aug. 26-27, Cornell professor Eswar Prasad said emerging economies can improve their stability by avoiding advanced economies' debt. (Sept. 1, 2011)
Eboo Patel, executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core and this year's Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture speaker, Feb. 21 in Sage Chapel, stressed tolerance and interfaith cooperation. (Feb. 22, 2011)
Scrapbooks produced by graduates of Carol Kammen's Knight Writing Seminar on the history of Cornell will be on display in Kroch Library during Reunion Weekend. (June 1, 2007)
An interdisciplinary Cornell team will develop computer models, funded by the EPA, that consider such factors as trade patterns, transportation and economic geography associated with globalization. (Dec. 15, 2009)
Steven Strogatz presented the talk, Doing Math in Public: From the Columns of The New York Times to 'The Calculus of Friendship,' as part of the Conversations at Keeton discussion series. (Feb. 14, 2011)
The 12th annual Staff Education Exploration Day (S.E.E.D.) was held on July 21 in the Biotechnology Building. More than 200 staff attended the event to learn strategies for developing their careers. (July 23, 2010)
President Hunter Rawlings briefed smiling members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, at its final meetings May 25 and 26, on three key areas in which the university has made great strides over the past academic year: research, admissions and faculty and staff salaries.
Professors William White and Kosali Simon contrasted elements of two health care bills that propose to expand health coverage using a combination of incentives and penalties. (Dec. 8, 2009)
The United States might control much of the planet's wealth, but more than 10 percent of its households don't always have enough food to eat. One way to reduce the incidence of families running out of food, a significant nutrition study at Cornell has found, is education in food selection and resource management.
The New York State Wine Analytical Lab at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., with new equipment, serves as a troubleshooter for state wineries. (Aug. 17, 2011)