Students and scholars can now freely search the Classical Works Knowledge Base, a new database of Latin and Greek authors that links to online versions of 5,200 works by 1,500 ancient authors.
Thirteen students and two faculty members from the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design traveled to India Jan. 2-16 in a class trip to visit textile and apparel production centers.
Three city and regional planning graduate students traveled to Indonesia in December, to participate in the third annual Urban Social Forum and conduct research for community projects in Java.
A versatile architectural technology created by a Cornell design professor has been adopted by sustainability-minded students to build bamboo-based hurricane- and earthquake-resistant structures.
Steven D. Tanksley, a molecular geneticist who pioneered concepts essential to modern plant breeding while a professor at Cornell University, has won the prestigious Japan Prize worth $420,000.
Soumitra Dutta, the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of Johnson at Cornell University, this week is joining other leading thinkers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Soumya Gupta, Ph.D ‘15, an expert studying the intersection of agriculture, nutrition and women’s status in India, is the winner of the inaugural Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research.
A team led by Cornell professor Grace Xing has created gallium nitride power diodes capable of serving as building blocks for GaN switches, with many possible power and electronics applications.
In a landmark national election Jan. 16, Taiwan elected Tsai Ing-wen, LL.M. '80, its next president. The first woman and the second Cornellian to hold Taiwan's highest office, she will assume the presidency May 20.
