In his third interactive webcast with Cornell alumni and friends, President David Skorton addressed the university's research goals, state funding and fiscal challenges. (July 30, 2009)
Among all American colleges and universities, Cornell University's motto is the best, according to Motto magazine, which recently released its first annual Top 10 Motto List. (Aug. 6, 2007)
An ambitious project that deploys big data and uses machine learning to understand the ecological impacts of hydropower dams in the Amazon Basin started in a mundane enough setting: on the sidelines at youth baseball games.
Cornell researcher will take part in a multi-institutional $5 million project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate how changes to an ecosystem can influence evolution in a fish species.
Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl's chance discovery of a 69 million-year-old crab fossil shows that shell-breaking crabs lived 20 million years earlier than scientists thought. (April 16, 2008)
Richard Ernst, 1991 Nobel laureate in chemistry and professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, will visit Cornell Oct. 14-29 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.
A recognition ceremony for January 2006 graduates was held Dec. 17 in Barton Hall. About 200 undergraduates, 25 master's degree candidates and 10 Ph.D. candidates participated. (December 20, 2005)
ITHACA, N.Y. --- This month, Cornell University Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large Roger Short, Haris Silajdzic and Jane Goodall will deliver public lectures on subjects ranging from human sexuality to international peacekeeping to saving the planet. Short is an eminent reproductive biologist making his first visit to Cornell as a professor-at-large; Silajdzic, a former prime minister of Bosnia, is making his final professor-at-large visit, as is Goodall, who is one of world's most widely recognized and distinguished primatologists. (April 5, 2002)
The Book of Love (Norton 1998), an anthology of writings about love, edited by writer Diane Ackerman and novelist Jeanne Mackin, takes on that ancient and heart-stoppingly contemporary question, what is love? "It feels like hunger pains, and we use the same word. Pang," writes Ackerman in her introduction.