How do organizations get workers onto the 'road less taken' when most people will choose the roads they know will pay off? Cornell researchers have found that incentives for trying something new may work.
CU Winds continued its cultural outreach mission on its third biennial tour of Costa Rica, donating 95 instruments to five schools and performing with and teaching student musicians and conductors.
A chemical that often serves as a key ingredient in improvised explosive devices can be quickly and safely detected by a new polymer created by Cornell scientists.
Editors' picks for events the week of April 10 include a faculty chamber music concert, a symposium on city cinema and the return of John Cleese. (April 9, 2009)
Cornell will honor the memory of alumnus Leo Frank, Class of 1906, with an art opening, a talk and a movie on Oct. 25, Oct. 28, and Nov. 1. All events are free and open to the public.
Government professor Christopher J. Anderson is co-investigator for an international collaborative research project that will examine elections in Canada, France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland. (April 27, 2009)
Three Cornell University faculty members are among the 213 new fellows elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in honor of their distinguished contributions to their professions. The three Cornell honorees to be inducted in October are Gregory Lawler, professor of mathematics; Mars rover scientist Steven Squyres, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy; and novelist Alison Lurie, F.J. Whiton Professor of American Literature Emerita.
To highlight the growing importance of the study of genome variation and Cornell's expertise in the field, the university has launched the Cornell Center for Comparative and Population Genomics. (Oct. 29, 2008)
A former Cornell graduate student's documentary film of an impoverished Brooklyn family is the catalyst for a symposium addressing societal, legal, cultural and clinical issues affecting millions of Americans daily.