Running for the position of dean of the university faculty are Joseph Burns, engineering and astronomy, and Risa Lieberwitz, labor and employment law. Voting closes March 30. (March 19, 2012)
To address inequality and the environmental crisis facing the world today people should pull together rather than compete against each other for individual gain, two faculty members urged in a Feb. 28 lecture.
On Pi Day at Cornell, the mathematical constant Pi was celebrated simultaneously with its round, baked edible homonym as faculty and students participated in a pie-eating contest. (March 15, 2012)
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington has opened a new exhibit “Spirit & Opportunity: 10 Years Roving Across Mars,” a retrospective that recounts the Mars mission and the Cornell scientific triumphs of the rovers.
Faculty in Cornell's North and West Campus residential communities cite mentorship, interaction with students and teaching Learning Where You Live courses among the benefits of their roles.
Jolivette Anderson, an African-American activist, poet, performance artist, teacher and youth leader will visit Cornell and present 'Inspired by the Movement,' dramatic works and a lecture that celebrate the history and legacy of the civil rights movement.
Abbas Maleki, Iran's deputy foreign minister 1988-1997, offered insights into how Iran views itself vis a vis its current tensions with the West. (March 13, 2012)
A new study suggests that when a woman is particularly close to her male partner's friends, her partner is more likely to have sexual problems. (Aug. 25, 2011)