As part of ongoing efforts to initiate campus dialogue on critical issues, Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings and Dean of the Faculty J. Robert Cooke are cosponsoring a University Faculty Forum.
What's the best way for a university to promote the mental health of its students? For Cornell, it's caring for the whole person through a comprehensive public health approach. (Feb. 23, 2011)
James McConkey, Cornell's Goldwin Smith Professor of English Literature emeritus, didn't think he had another book in him. But his latest is "The Telescope in the Parlor: Essays on Life and Literature."
Dispelling widely held myths about various ethnic groups' tolerance of crowding, a new Cornell University study finds that Asian Americans and Latin Americans are just as uncomfortable in crowded homes as are Anglo Americans (Americans of European descent) and African Americans.
Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center will host an international symposium, 'Imaging Ethiopia: Monarchy and Modernity,' April 20-21 in the center's Multipurpose Room, 310 Triphammer Road. (April 17, 2007)
Blasting the media as an 'engine of falsification,' feminist columnist Katha Pollitt spoke her mind April 11 in a lecture at Carl Becker House. (April 17, 2007)
The typical American home has 20 electrical appliances that bleed consumers of money. That's because the appliances continue to suck electricity even when they're off, says a Cornell University energy expert.
More than 800 astronomers from around the world will descend on Ithaca Oct. 10-15 for the 40th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences. (Oct. 8, 2008)
In a new book, The Deep Hot Biosphere, Cornell professor emeritus of astronomy Thomas Gold argues that subterranean bacteria started the whole evolutionary process, and that there's no looming energy shortage because oil reserves are far greater than predicted.