Professor Sandra Vehrencamp records bird songs and plays them back to birds to better understand exactly how birds use songs to communicate and convey information. (Dec. 18, 2008)
Cornell has received two grants totaling $1 million to expand the John S. Knight Writing Program, which seeks to improve student writing and the teaching of writing.
Concerns and criticisms about proposed changes to the Campus Code of Conduct and Cornell's judicial system were voiced at a Feb. 5 public forum. (Feb. 7, 2007)
Digging through history to a time before agriculture, archaeologists from Cornell and the University of California at Berkeley have found evidence of a village that was continuously occupied from 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1000.
The Gateways to the Laboratory Program invites a select group of minority and disadvantaged college students to participate in 10 weeks of research at Weill Cornell Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Sloan-Kettering Institute and Rockefeller University, granting them a unique opportunity and boosting their odds of getting into an M.D. or Ph.D. graduate program after college. (December 15, 2005)
Muna B. Ndulo, professor of law at Cornell University Law School, has been named director of Cornell's Institute for African Development. Ndulo will continue as a Law School faculty member while holding his new position. He succeeds David B. Lewis, director of the institute since its inception.
Who picks and packages the fruits and vegetables in supermarkets? To learn more about the faces and lives behind the produce we eat, teachers and youth leaders can obtain free teacher resources and lesson plans developed by Cornell University on migrant farmworkers in the northeastern United States.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- There will be a community program to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC), 318 N. Albany St., Monday, Jan. 19 -- Martin Luther King Day -- from 1:30 to 7 p.m. The theme for this year's day of activities and reflection is "Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters and Righteousness Like a Mighty Stream." It is free and open to all. The program will begin with four hours of activities, including percussion, storytelling, poetry, beadmaking, an elders speak-out and a youth speak-out. The final part of the program will be a free dinner with a keynote speaker and entertainment.
'Global Development and Terrorism: Related Topics?' is the title of a Cornell forum that will attempt to identify the key issues in U.S. foreign policy and global affairs.