Cornell faculty members Hening Lin and Olga Boudker have been named 2015 Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators, the institute announced May 19.
Current students have identified the first 25 members of what they hope will be a permanent hall of fame to honor Cornellians who have given time and energy to human rights causes.
Wading ankle-deep along the shore of the cosmic ocean, scientists from around the world gathered at Cornell May 9 to celebrate and inaugurate the university’s Carl Sagan Institute: Pale Blue Dot & Beyond.
A research institution devoted to the pursuit of this challenge, the Carl Sagan Institute: Pale Blue Dot and Beyond, was unveiled May 9 at Cornell University, Sagan's teaching and research home for most of his career.
During 2015-16 and 2016-17, Cornell will build upon ongoing diversity initiatives by focusing efforts on "the lived experience of diversity," with an emphasis on engagement.
The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research hosted a Flash Science! speaking competition to give early-career plant scientists experience talking to a general audience May 5.
Practicing Arabic in Cornell's Language House, students planned Spring Break research in an Arab Spring democracy - until terrorists attacked their destination.
