Cornell faculty and alumni are helping to advise Breakthrough Starshot - a $100 million research and engineering project aiming to demonstrate proof of concept for light-propelled nanocrafts that could capture images and scientific data in our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri.
A pilot project in Mexico is bringing together Cornell researchers and Maya leaders to manage community forests for biodiversity conservation now and livelihoods, including bee-keeping and ecotourism, into the future.
Ten students received when they participated in the Clinton Global Initiative University annual meeting, April 1-3, at UC Berkeley to compete for funding to support social justice projects.
Eleven students from the Global Citizenship course in the College of Human Ecology traveled to Cuba over spring break to learn about fashion trends and consumer culture on the island.
Allison M. Macfarlane, a geologist and former chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will lecture on nuclear energy post-Fukushima on campus April 25 at 3:30 p.m. in 700 Clark Hall.
Researchers at Cornell and Bar-Ilan Universities have uncovered a new mechanism for mutation in primates that is rare but rapid, site-specific and aggressive.
Suzanne Mahlburg Kay, professor of geological sciences, now shares a prestigious honor with Charles Darwin - a formal induction into the National Academy of Sciences of Argentina.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, international religious leader, philosopher, bestselling author and 2016 Templeton Prize Laureate, lectures on “Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence” April 20.
The China and Asia-Pacific Studies (CAPS) Program at Cornell observed its 10th anniversary April 1, when Arts and Sciences Dean Gretchen Ritter and others visited Beijing.
