A handful of faculty attended the informal Dec. 3 brown-bag lunch hosted by Provost Kent Fuchs to discuss the findings of the life sciences task force.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library $865,845 for the preservation of books, family farm memoirs, land transactions and other published materials that depict the history of American agricultural and rural life.
Events on campus this week include Ithaca Darwin Days, events at the Johnson Museum, lectures on religion and democracy, Africa and China, and the gender pay gap, and Greenberg's 'The Author's Voice.' (Feb. 3, 2011)
The 20th annual Cornell Asian Alumni Association Banquet in New York City Jan. 22 raised funds for the Pan-Asian Garden at Cornell Plantations. (Feb. 1, 2011)
This semester a horticulture class prepared for a spring break trip to Belize -- not to hit the beach but to show how school gardens can enrich curricula and serve as a foundation for community education programs. (April 3, 2009)
Cleaving the gloom of low, sodden skies that threatened to envelop seniors and their families gathered in the Schoellkopf Crescent, Martin Luther King III implored Cornell University's Class of 2006 to "rise up" and lead the…
Engaged Cornell - a groundbreaking, $150 million, 10-year initiative to establish community engagement and real-world learning experiences as the hallmark of the Cornell undergraduate experience - was launched Oct. 6.
The effects of low-paying jobs with inflexible hours could be more threatening even than stress and financial insecurity, according to a new study by nutritionists at Cornell University.
The Cornell Genetic Ancestry Project will map the 'deep' ancestry of 200 undergraduate volunteers and sponsor discussions concerning genetic testing. (Jan. 25, 2011)
The 2000 census showed that 56 million people live in rural America, accounting for about 20 percent of the U.S. population. Rural America is going through substantial change. A new book, Challenges for Rural America in the 21st Century, examines rural people and communities and the disadvantages they suffer in quality-of-life measures.