Cornell Silicon Valley gathered a group of about 100 alumni July 22 in Mountain View, Calif., to discuss possible solutions to a future punctuated by traffic congestion and environmental decline. (July 30, 2009)
Sociologist Tom Hirschl says poverty may be best understood in a relative sense – that is, looking at how people stack up against each other, as opposed to against a specific income standard.
Events include the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows lecture; the play “Spill” on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill; Cornell Chorus and Glee Club performing “A German Requiem”; and the Cornell Orchestras’ final performances of the semester.
Bryan Duff, education senior lecturer in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has made filmmaking a central mechanism to showcase the power of storytelling in the Ithaca city schools.
Associate Professor John Cawley has accepted a seat on the Social Sciences and Population Studies Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (July 19, 2007)
However, women faculty at Cornell are generally less satisfied than their male counterparts with their jobs, says a recent report by the CU-ADVANCE Center, relying on data from a Faculty Work-Life Survey. (Dec. 10, 2007)
Attachment is the theme of assistant professor Vivian Zayas' '94 life, as she's personally attached to Ultimate (Frisbee) and professionally to the study of attachment. (Oct. 12, 2010)
The athletic shoes on your feet came from around the world: the American cowhide was tanned in South Korea, the Taiwanese synthetic rubber was derived from Saudi Arabian petroleum, the shoe box was made in the United States and Indonesian rainforest trees provided the tissue paper inside the box.
Interior design and behavioral science students collaborated on a project this semester to design new fitness and physical therapy spaces at Kendal at Ithaca. They built full-scale models of their proposed solutions. (Dec. 9, 2008)