As the study of natural history changed over time, so too have the words writers used to describe the natural world, said Lawrence Lipking, Ph.D. '62, a visiting professor in a Feb. 26 campus lecture.
Children who live in disadvantaged neighborhoods at any point in their lives up to age 18 are 75 percent more likely to be unemployed and also earn a lower income as adults, according to sociologist Steven Alvarado.
Math professor Steven Strogatz took part in research led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology that proposes a way to optimize taxi fleet deployment, based on a 2011 data set taken from New York City cab trips.
Political scientist Jamila Michener expands the "broken windows theory" - used by social scientists to explain bad behavior in bad neighborhoods: criminals feel comfortable there - to show how some people's discomfort with bad neighborhoods inspires good behavior.
At the Capital Poetics: Poetry and the Economic conference March 4, scholars discussed the relation of poetry to the political economy. (March 8, 2011)
Students in Marcia Eames-Sheavly's Art of Horticulture class created a 10-ton earth-and-sod sculpture Sept. 4 at Cornell's turfgrass plots. (Sept. 10, 2007)
Cornell Orchestras won first place in the Collegiate Orchestras category of the awards given out by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers with the League of American Orchestras.
Cellist Adrianne Ngam, an architecture major, won the fifth annual Cornell Concerto Competition Dec. 14 in Barnes Hall. She will be featured in a March 1 concert with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra. (Dec. 18, 2008)
Donald F. Holcomb, emeritus professor of physics and former chair of the Department of Physics and university trustee, died Aug. 9 at Kendal at Ithaca, at age 92.