The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded $25,000 to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art for its popular Objects and Their Makers: New Insights educational kits for area schools. The program introduces schoolchildren and their teachers to the arts of other cultures.
With soda taxes on the ballot in four cities Nov. 8, and a law on deck in 2017 in another, behavioral economist John Cawley says these taxes have increased soda prices by only half as much as they were intended to.
With a plan to harness the wind, sun, water and the Earth’s heat, a panel from the Senior Leaders Climate Action Group explained to the Cornell community Oct. 31 how the campus could become carbon neutral by 2035.
The Cornell Symphony Orchestra will premiere 'Anillos,' by Cornell composer Roberto Sierra, Oct. 11 in Bailey Hall, as part of the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences annual meeting. (Oct. 8, 2008)
Joining Cornell's faculty in 1956, Seymour "Sy" Smidt was an internationally recognized expert in corporate finance, managerial economics and market microstructure. He died May 16 in Ithaca.
The way conservation biologists describe a species' risk of extinction, and how the public interprets that description, can be strikingly different, according to a new study by Cornell communication scholars.
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin announced May 24 the reappointment of Franklin W. Robinson, the Richard J. Schwartz Director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. The appointment, which is for five years beginning July 1.
On April 26, Professor Ross Brann delivered his 'last lecture,' which focused on the importance of the personal life journey, and touched on culture, Mediterranean travel and his own life. (April 28, 2010)
Research fellow Nimat Hafez Barazangi said Muslim women can use the Quran to build a stronger identity for themselves in Muslim societies at a talk at Cornell Sept. 16. (Sept. 22, 2010)