"I've never done one particular track, and I've always followed whatever I love and loved whatever I've done," said Cornell University Dean of Human Ecology Lisa Staiano-Coico at an April 5 panel discussion, "Women in Medicine…
Turning plants such as corn, soybeans and sunflowers into fuel uses much more energy than the resulting ethanol or biodiesel generates, according to a new Cornell University and University of California-Berkeley study.
Researchers at Cornell are recipients of the first round of seed money that promises to turn research discoveries into marketable products. Two examples: the world's first hand-held sprayer for concentrated pesticides and microbe…
Almost half the participating Graduate School and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences graduate fields were included within the top 10 range of rankings in a National Research Council survey.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will hold its first meeting of 2000 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, Jan. 27 through Jan. 29.
To the editor:
Your article on campus construction ("FAQ: How a busy construction season, from Thurston bridge to Hoy garage, will affect traffic and parking on campus," March 16 Chronicle) was useful. However, it focused mainly…
To the editor:
Your article on campus construction ("FAQ: How a busy construction season, from Thurston bridge to Hoy garage, will affect traffic and parking on campus," March 16 Chronicle) was useful. However, it focused…
A study of five agricultural communities in New York state finds that Mexican immigrants comprise 95 percent of the fruits-and-vegetables agricultural workforce and that workers increasingly are choosing to settle with their families in these rural communities. In the recently published report, two Cornell researchers observe that while this newly forming population is a potential boon to areas struggling with economic downturn, their ability to integrate into their new communities is key to their long-term success.
Michael Burawoy, who rolls up his sleeves to conduct sociological research on labor from the factory floor, will give Cornell University's 2003 Polson Memorial Lecture Oct. 3. His talk, "Public Sociology in a Global Context," will be followed by a panel discussion. The lecture, at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall on campus, is free and open to the public. Burawoy is a professor of sociology at the University of California-Berkeley and president-elect of the American Sociological Association (ASA). In his research in the United States and in Europe, he uses the extended case-study method, which involves intensive participant observation. An example of this method can be found in his book, The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism (Chicago University Press, 1992), for which he worked for a year as a furnace operator in a Hungarian steel plant. In other research projects, Burawoy has worked in a Hungarian champagne factory, spent a year as a personnel officer at a Zambian copper mine and toiled for 10 months as a machine operator on Chicago's South Side. (September 29, 2003)
You can lead students to a list of alumni contacts, but getting them to take the scary step of calling a complete stranger for advice is tough. Unless it counts on their grade.