How much children learn in school depends in good measure on the attitudes and values of the surrounding community -- and on how much those values are shared by the children themselves -- education experts agreed at a symposium at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia.
In an interview, ILR School Professor John Bishop discusses how his tax credit proposal would leverage billions of dollars of private resources to create jobs. (Oct. 27, 2009)
A $12.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will create VIVOweb, a multi-institutional version of Cornell's VIVO system to encourage communication between biomedical researchers. (Oct. 27, 2009)
The Cornell University Library has launched the Cornell Undergraduate Information Competency Initiative to help faculty members help student to become better researchers in the digital age.
A new study using an old, misunderstood technique -- hypnotic suggestion -- finds the brain can override responses experts have long assumed to be ingrained and automatic, such as reading. (Aug. 1, 2005)
Understanding of honeybee interactions could have implications for why people act selfishly in a communal system, said Professor Kern Reeve, one of the presenters at the Oct. 16 conference. (Oct. 21, 2009)
Rosemary Stasek '85, founder of a nonprofit that helps Afghan women, focused on activism as the keynote speaker March 8 at a campus celebration for International Women's Day. (March 10, 2009)
The Cornell University Board of Trustees unanimously approved 1996-97 statutory college tuition rates and a new residential housing policy at its meeting May 25.