From dangerously rundown houses in rural upstate New York to urban shantytowns in Latin America, substandard housing is a growing international problem linked to globalization and poverty.
Diana Daniels is a fly-fishing soccer mom as well as vice chair of the Cornell Board of Trustees and general counsel and secretary of the Washington Post Co.
Benito Mussolini died in shame, his battered corpse hung upside down dangling beside his lover in a public square. Josef Stalin was treated to a massive ceremonial funeral attended by thousands of mourners.
The constant roar from jet aircraft can seriously affect the health and psychological well-being of children, according to a new Cornell study. The health problems resulting from chronic airport noise, including higher blood pressure and boosted levels of stress hormones, the researchers say, may have lifelong effects.
SAN FRANCISCO -- If California energy officials had paid closer attention to mathematics and the commodities market yesterday, much of the state could be experiencing less of an energy crisis today. A systematic use of market contracts, called options, purchased before the crisis happened, might have alleviated it, says Philip Protter, a researcher at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Protter stresses that it is unclear why new types of options, called energy derivatives, were not used to good effect. This, he says, could have been the fault of regulators, or utilities themselves, "or the inadequacies of what is, after all, a new kind of market."
Six members of the Cornell University faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among 291 researchers chosen to receive the prestigious award this year.
In the developed world, societies enjoy abundant diets more varied now than at any other time in history. That's in stark contrast to the developing world where millions of people confront profound food insecurity every day.
A sexually maturing male midshipman fish can look forward to becoming either of two very different kinds of guy: A talented "singer" whose courtship songs lure females to his love nest, or a "sneaker male" who can't carry a tune.
Want to know the slope of that hill on the north forty? Or the soil conditions there? What about the stream that flows through the middle -- how much water flows and what's its chemical composition?
Anthony Vidler, professor of art history and architecture and chair of the Department of Art History at the University of California at Los Angeles, has been nominated as dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University.