The National Science Foundation just announced that Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa will receive grant money that will enable Cornell geologist Rhawn Denniston to continue his studies on past climate research. The grant will also provide support for student involvement in the research.
Cornell College students will soon be diving into new and ongoing research projects to discover the unknown about a number of topics including box turtles, eating disorder prevention, supermassive black holes, monarch butterflies, and digital games for language learning.
The Cornell College Mock Trial Team continues to make a name for itself against much larger schools.
David Grusky, professor of sociology at Stanford University, will speak at Cornell College at 3 p.m. on Dec. 7 in Hedges Conference Room in the Thomas Commons. He will describe his research on the sociology of class and gender inequality in what he calls today’s New Gilded Age.
The National Science Foundation’s Division of Environmental Biology awarded Cornell College a $1 million grant to support research led by biology professor Marty Condon. The grant will allow her to continue her long-running research into evolution and biological diversity in the tropics.
Cornell College is launching a new business major this fall with three areas of focus, including business analytics, which uses data and statistical analysis to guide business decisions, and is one of the fast-growing areas in business.
Cornell College’s new engineering sciences program will blend a solid grounding in math and science with a liberal arts education that prepares students to solve problems that don’t yet exist.
Erin Davis, Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell College, will speak about the role of women in strategy boardgaming and the challenges they face.
Research published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Rhawn Denniston, professor of geology at Cornell College, and his research team, created a 2,200-year-long record of extreme rainfall events that might also help predict future climate change.
Cornell College economics and business Professor Todd Knoop has written his fourth textbook, which explores the causes of business cycles and includes information and data gathered during the 2008 global financial crisis and its aftermath.
Cornell College is adding programs in business and engineering sciences starting with the 2015-2016 academic year.
Beginning next summer the college will seek to double the number of supported research projects, currently at 12 to 14 and mostly in the sciences, by accommodating additional projects in the arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences. The grant will enhance the funds available for stipends, project supplies, and student housing. Student researchers from a variety of disciplines will live together in a residence hall, creating a summer living-learning community.
Marty Condon, professor of biology at Cornell College, has been studying flies in the tropics for years, and in a paper published in the journal Science, she reports evidence that there is more to a fly’s ecological niche than where it lives and what it eats—you have to look at what eats the fly, as well.
Cornell College has received a $250,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to help ensure first-generation college students succeed. The money will be used to create a professional orientation and development program for first-generation college students.
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