Cornell is putting more than 1,500 volumes -- more than 600,000 pages -- in an online archive documenting the history of home economics, thanks to a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Sex, drugs and alcohol. These are among the youth-oriented issues being discussed in Connecting with Kids workshops, an award-winning program run by Cornell Cooperative Extension. (November 15, 2005)
Frank H.T. Rhodes, professor of geological sciences and president emeritus at Cornell University, has been elected president of the American Philosophical Society (APS) for a three-year term.
Richard Burkhauser, Cornell University professor of policy analysis and management, has been invited to speak at President Bush's Economic Forum at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, next Tuesday, Aug. 13.
Cornell University's Presidential Research Scholars may travel to far places to conduct research or be so involved in research with professors that they win prestigious awards or become co-authors of scientific papers as undergraduate students. (November 09, 2005)
Honoring efforts to increase numbers of minorities and women in science and mathematics, the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point has named Cornell mathematician Carlos Castillo-Chavez as one of three Distinguished Alumni for 1999.
Martha Fineman, the Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Feminist Jurisprudence at Cornell Law School, has been awarded the Harry Kalven Prize by the Law and Society Association (LSA).
A combination of hard work, revisions of earlier writings, coincidence and swift turnarounds in publication led to Shawkat Toorawa's remarkable coup of four books in one academic year (November 01, 2005)
Societal changes are inextricably linked to changes in women's roles and status. And throughout March, Cornell will host a series of programs that explore these linkages - particularly in terms of what they tell us about notions of "family values," that loaded expression that has been a rallying cry of political conservatives.
Cornell and The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology have announced a new partnership to create a world-class applied science and engineering campus in New York City, as outlined by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. (Oct. 18, 2011)