Cornell Cooperative Extension is on the front lines of educating citizens and communities about natural gas drilling into the Marcellus Shale. (Nov. 30, 2009)
The Mann Library Gallery's November/December exhibit, 'Earth Pattern,' features what Trumansburg, N.Y., artist Jay Hart calls 'terrain art.' (Nov. 6, 2007)
Events on campus this week include an exhibit on early Cornell women scientists, the first Bound for Glory and Department of Music concerts of the season, the start of salsa lessons and a lecture on race and crime.
Working long hours has increasingly become expected in the work culture, yet seemingly gender-neutral workplace norms can result in discriminatory outcomes, the study says. (Aug. 1, 2008)
Events on campus this week include: a teaching conference, Nano exhibit, talks on renewable energy and caregivers, first 'Soup and Hope' lunch, book reading and opening 'Light in Winter' events. (Jan. 13, 2011)
Benjamin R. Barber, author of the book Jihad vs. McWorld, will examine international terrorism in the second annual Polson Lecture, "Globalizing Markets? Globalizing Terror? Or Globalizing Democracy?" at Cornell University on Nov. 1. The lecture will be at 3 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium in Kennedy Hall. Barber will examine how terrorism affects the United States and how "democracy rather than terrorism may become the principal victim of the battle currently being waged." His lecture, which is free and open to the public, is presented by Cornell's Polson Institute for Global Development. (October 14, 2002)
The world could have enough food for it's burgeoning population with more investments in research and infrastructure, said Robert Thompson '67 at the New York State Ag Society Meeting Jan. 6. (Jan. 11, 2011)
Four new A.D. White Professors-at-Large have been appointed: autism researcher Simon Baron-Cohen, poet Anne Carson, political scientist James C. Scott and economic historian Robert Skidelsky. (June 21, 2010)
'The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls' (1997) by Joan Jacobs Brumberg, a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and professor of human development and women's studies at Cornell, has been chosen one of 'Choice's' Outstanding Academic Books.
Teenagers in love have a higher risk for depression, alcohol problems and delinquency than teens who do not get romantically involved, finds a Cornell sociologist. And love-sick girls, especially younger ones, are at an even higher risk for depression than boys.