After the University failed to fill 85 allotted scholarships in HEOP, Day Hall must renew their committment to the initiative.

The United States Department of Agriculture has adopted VIVO, a Cornell-based scientist networking site.

Following a publically broadcasted invitation from President Barack Obama, children and parents from around the country gathered at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for the U.S. Science and Engineering Festival on Oct. 23 and 24. Hosted by the global security company, Lockheed Martin, the festival strove to re-invigorate the interest of the nation’s youth in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by producing and presenting the most compelling, exciting, educational and entertaining science gathering in the nation. The festival had over 100 sponsors, including the university.

As an environmental microbiologist and a teacher, Prof. Bill Ghiorse, microbiology, is passionate about the importance of microbes in our world.

Steven Zhang '12 wonders why businesses and universities do not recognize the data that shows monetary incentives are ineffective.

Every year the Weill Cornell Youth Scholars Program (WCYSP) invites inner-city students to participate in a new educational experience. The following column, written in support of the program, was penned by three medical students who help run the WCYSP.

“The college must remain competitive.” That is the reason that Arts and Sciences Dean Lepage gave in response to the mass outcry concerning the disproportionate budget cuts that the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance is currently facing. According to Lepage, “the Arts and Sciences deans decided to invest strategically across our departments,” reasoning that the College would “emerge stronger than we would if we uniformly reduced everything we do”. In other words, the Arts and Sciences deans ranked the departments in order of “importance,” protecting those departments that ranked closest to the top while sacrificing the “expendable” departments that came in at the bottom of the list. This is a horrible strategy! What makes the College of Arts and Sciences great is the vast amount of different studies that a student can choose from in equally strong departments. If you severely cripple the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance to protect another, you are losing out on the many applicants who would apply to Cornell for the arts. Without a strong performing arts program, what separates Cornell from John Hopkins, Northwestern, Yale, Harvard and every other school that boasts outstanding science and research programs?

When developmental and environmental psychologist Gary Evans, an Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Ecology, moved to the woods of Ithaca from his California home, he had two focuses in mind: the Human Ecology school and his children. He found a challenge by his students to look at poverty and education.

The old adage “knowledge is power” expresses an axiomatic truth. But knowledge is much more than power — it is health, security, wealth, amusement and many more things. Learning, the process by which we obtain knowledge, has its own intrinsic value that we often overlook because we favor the more concrete benefits associated with knowledge.

To what extent do we know how to know?

In response to the global economic crisis, people have been debating what went wrong and how we can prevent a future collapse. There are those who advocate the full-fledged transformation of our financial institutions — stricter regulations and an end to sky-high bonuses that promote risk-taking behavior. Others suggest a change in societal values — curtailing the off-the-charts consumption and insatiable greed that permeated the subprime era.