Tulane University musicologist John Joyce and his daughter, Maggie, an undergrad at Tulane, are returning to that New Orleans campus after spending the semester at Cornell. (December 13, 2005)
Children in crowded homes do worse in school and have more frequent conflict with their parents than do those from less crowded surroundings, according to a new Cornell study. The study, carried out in Poona, a city of 737,000 in western India.
Many patients with AIDS in Haiti who received antiretroviral therapy had a one-year survival of 87 percent for adults and 98 percent for children, triple the 30 percent one-year survival of Haitian patients without the therapy, according to a study.
Founded as the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future in 2007 and then named and permanently endowed by David R. and Patricia Atkinson three years later, the Atkinson Center funds multidisciplinary solutions to sustainability challenges throughout the world.
Cornell scientists believe the NASA-led research team that announced its findings to the world that day has provided excellent data to substantiate its claim that life once existed on Mars.
A Cornell youth and work expert is calling for employers of teenagers to obtain "seals of approval" before adolescents can work for them. Parents should be as concerned about where their teenagers work as they are about their schools, because youth employment can have either profoundly positive or seriously harmful effects.
Lawrence Halprin, a landscape architect in San Francisco whose work helped shape modern landscape design, is the winner of Cornell University's 1999 Distinguished Alumni in the Arts Award.
Twenty years ago, when the Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act was written and large central-station steam-turbine facilities were the best way to generate electricity, no one expected the technological development of the small-scale, super-efficient, combined-cycle gas turbines that independent power producers and many utilities use today.
University PhotographyStudent bloggers, from left, Jennifer Lin '09, Jenna Bromberg '08 and Caroline Dias '08 are part of a pilot project meant to give prospective students and parents a representative picture of student life…