The toll of mental illness is staggering, afflicting some 20 million Americans. The costs of schizophrenia alone are $33 billion a year, according to the National Association in Research in Schizophrenia and Depression.
Free lectures about sustainability issues are slated for Mondays, 7:30 to 9 p.m. at 155 Olin Hall. The first talk focused on the importance of reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. (Sept. 6, 2011)
An important and far-ranging discussion on the humanities will take place on the Cornell campus May 9. Provost Biddy Martin is convening a group of faculty and academic administrators for a round-table discussion on the state of the humanities at Cornell and on a national level.
Fiction writer Manuel Muñoz, MFA '98, has received a Whiting Writers' Award worth $50,000. The awards were presented Oct. 29 in New York City. (Nov. 4, 2008)
Interim President Hunter Rawlings delivered the State of the University address, focusing on the role American research universities play in the nation and Cornell’s "remarkable role" as one of the great universities.
Cornell physicists can now control with precision how the particles in viscous liquids swirl, twirl and whirl. Think of adding cream to coffee - and managing the cream stream.
Cornell's student body have elected sophomore Asa Craig as its representative to the Cornell Board of Trustees. He will serve a two-year term beginning July 1. (April 24, 2009)
The international symposium, 'Rice and Language Across Asia,' Sept. 22-25 on campus, will examine the relationships between crops, language and socio-cultural developments in early Southeast Asia. (Sept. 19, 2011)
A Cornell team traveled to China to participate in an eco-urban design workshop, where they developed an innovative urban model for China to consider as it prepares to build new cities. (April 23, 2009)
Cornell historian Fredrik Logevall outlined how the Vietnam War happened and the lessons the war teaches today in his Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture June 7 during Cornell Reunion 2013.