Cornell natural-areas staff spotted small fluffy white sacs along the base of the needle on an eastern hemlock: telltale signs that a devastating pest had invaded Cornell's hemlocks for the first time.
In a new campus initiative, vegetable oil from deep fryers in campus dining halls, animal bedding, farm waste and other sources of 'biotrash' will be transformed to help fuel the university. (March 5, 2009)
Cornell University Professor Urie Bronfenbrenner, among the world's best-known psychologists, has been publishing articles and books for 60 years on what really matters in the development of human beings. Now he has pulled his ideas together and published a new book that traces the historical development of his groundbreaking bioecological model of human development and detailing how it can be applied via programs and policies. Making Human Beings Human: Bioecological Perspectives on Human Development (Sage Publications, 2004) is Bronfenbrenner's culminating work and statement that he hopes will shape the future of his field. Bronfenbrenner, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Human Development and of Psychology at Cornell, is a co-founder of the federal Head Start program and is widely regarded as one of the world's leading scholars in developmental psychology, child-rearing and human ecology -- the interdisciplinary domain he created. (September 24, 2004)
Being in captivity for just a few weeks can reduce the volume of the hippocampus by as much as 23 percent, according to a new Cornell study. (Oct. 9, 2009)
Gene Cretz, the first U.S. ambassador to Libya in more than 36 years, discussed diplomacy and U.S.-Libyan relations with about 100 students and faculty members in the Plant Sciences Building Oct. 7. (Oct. 8, 2009)
Novelist Junot Dâaz, M.F.A. '95, and Cornell faculty members considered the growing Latino community and the readiness of the arts to address immigration at a panel discussion Feb. 19. (Feb. 25, 2009)
How Cornell's historic land-grant mission is still viable today in helping an increasingly globalized community was discussed by Vice Provost Ronald Seeber and Professor Max Pfeffer, at an Oct. 19 trustees meeting. (Oct. 22, 2007)
Cornell faculty members Linda Rayor and John Weiss have been named 2005 winners of the Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Service-Learning Award. The annual award, which comes with a $5,000 purse for each recipient, recognizes the winners' involvement with service-learning projects that actively involve Cornell students in research, teaching and outreach efforts addressing important community-identified policy issues. It is given by Cornell's Public Service Center.
Kathy Luz Herrera was one of the first women to enter the apprenticeship program in 1988 and says it has been 'a great avenue for women and minorities to enter the skilled trades.' (Oct. 18, 2007)