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Cornell Equine Park celebrates reopening, honors legacy

The Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine celebrated the grand reopening of the Cornell Equine Park Wednesday, Nov. 13. The event comes after two years of construction and remodeling of the park on Bluegrass Lane, just a mile east of campus.

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Cornell AAP establishes Ratan N. Tata Distinguished Alumni Award

The College of Architecture, Art and Planning has established the Ratan N. Tata Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of the decades-long philanthropy of the late Ratan Tata ’59, B.Arch. ’62, a former Cornell trustee and renowned business leader.

Making beneficiaries pay for new power lines is fair strategy

Using the “beneficiary pays” principle for new power infrastructure will encourage investment in the grid without causing disputes over cost-sharing, new research shows.

Town-Gown awardees foster business, community, sustainability

Partnerships aiming to minimize construction waste in Central New York, address isolation and cognitive loss through performance, and promote and nurture local startups received the annual Cornell Town-Gown Awards, announced Nov. 16 at Cinemapolis.

Holding people responsible through a system of blame, praise

Philosopher David Shoemaker examines the complicated nature of both modes of response, teasing out their many varieties while defending a general symmetry between them.

Lloyd Robinson ’87 takes the family business to the next level

Robinson has led the company through lots of changes and hosted Cornell interns for more than 20 summers.

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Student-led initiative promotes mental health, combats seasonal gloom

A student-led initiative by Cornell Minds Matter, “Light Up The Season” will illuminate trees, lamp posts and walkways of Ho Plaza through February and is aimed at countering seasonal gloom.

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Structure of receptor reveals how it functions in heart disease

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have determined the full-length structure and function of a blood pressure-regulating hormone receptor, which may enable better drug targeting of the receptor for diseases such as hypertension and heart failure.

Inaugural Cornell Systems Summit brings global experts to campus

Systems engineering experts worldwide from academia, industry and government gathered Nov. 3-5 at Cornell to present research and exchange insights as part of the first annual Cornell Systems Summit.

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Things to do: Much music, Supreme Court panel, Town-Gown Awards

Pick from several concerts, attend the Town-Gown Awards and consider the polarization of the Supreme Court at events around campus.

Global experts converge at Cornell to drive solutions in climate finance

Over 1,200 people from 49 countries convened at the inaugural “Global Climate Finance and Risks,” virtual conference co-hosted by Cornell Atkinson, the Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business and the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Financial Research. This year’s U.N. COP29 in Baku will emphasize climate finance solutions. 

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Better, faster traffic analyses will speed new housing in NYC

The new “How NYC Moves” report, co-authored by a Cornell Tech expert and New York City’s Mayor’s Office, offers strategies to leverage technology to speed transportation analyses and unlock housing development.