Only 2.5 percent of people who have a medical emergency in a public place got help from strangers before emergency medical personnel arrived. African-Americans were less than half as likely as Caucasians to get help.
Influential French writer, theorist and feminist scholar Helene Cixous will be on campus Sept. 19-23 for a conference and lecture during her first visit as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large. (Sept. 16, 2010)
Physicists from Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania join forces to forge a link between smectic liquid crystals and martensite steel, both of which have an unusual, elegant microstructure.
You might have looked at the trashed school bus as an eyesore. But Pete Klassen-Landis '06 saw art -- and his senior architecture thesis. Like all evanescent art, the bus installation's time on campus was intended to be finite…
Paul L. Houston, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been appointed senior associate dean in Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.
Experience and imagination mark the work of six graduate student poets included in 'Poetry in Your Pocket,' a chapbook printed for Poem in Your Pocket Day, April 29 in New York City. (April 22, 2010)
The Southern Tier Regional Economic Development Council has won $500 million over the next five years in New York's Upstate Revitalization Initiative. Cornell will be involved in about $100 million worth of key projects funded by the grant.
Scholars considered the influence of new perspectives in Africana studies and 'narratives that haven't been told yet' at the Africana Center's 40th anniversary conference April 17. (April 19, 2010)
At a French studies workshop, 'History and the Experience of Haiti,' Nov. 14, speakers addressed how Haiti's history relates to universal history - the relationships of histories throughout the world. (Nov. 18, 2009)