The President's Council of Cornell Women at Cornell has awarded 18 grants to help advance the careers of women in academia through support of the completion of dissertations and research leading to tenure and promotion.
Before entering the hospitality industry, Chworowsky, 32, the winner of the 1996 Drown Prize awarded annually to a top senior in the School of Hotel Administration, made a living in Asia providing English dubbing for Kung Fu movies and television programs.
A new, essentially inexhaustible source of energy for the 21st century may result from experiments under way at Cornell University's Laboratory for Plasma Studies.
The Arecibo Observatory, home of the world's largest radio-radar telescope, has moved close to completion of a major upgrade that makes it one of the most sensitive and powerful tools ever designed for astronomical studies.
Children who do not consistently live with two biological parents are only half as likely to ever attend a selective college, even after researchers take into account factors such as income and parent education, according to a new Cornell study.
With New England leading the way, April showers brought 133 percent of the Northeast's normal precipitation, making it the 10th wettest April in 102 years of records, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
Cornell students won the National Championship of Soil Judging held April 26 at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Okla., scoring 2,060 points, beating second-place University of Wisconsin-Platteville at 2,032.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca on May 24 and 25. The full board will convene at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 25, in the Hans Bethe Seminar Room, 700 Clark Hall.
Consumers are not generous when it comes to rewarding good service from waiters and waitresses. The relationship between good service and tipping is weak,finds new study by Cornell University and the University of Houston.
