2015 Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich spoke at Statler Auditorium on Sept. 12 about her nonfiction techniques to capture many people's voices to produce historical narratives.
Gender matters to the 16 trainers and 11 teams of 33 researchers from four continents who will participate in a course on “Gender Responsive Root, Tuber and Banana Breeding,” Sept. 12-21 in Uganda.
Internet governance expert Martin Mueller will present the first in a series of lectures on questions at the intersection of technology, politics and international law.
Svetlana Alexievich, an investigative journalist and nonfiction writer who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in literature, will speak on "The Rise and Fall of the Russian-Soviet Dream," Sept. 12 at 4:30 p.m.
Because forest elephants are one of the world's slowest reproducing mammals, it will take almost a century for them to recover from the intense poaching they have suffered since 2002, a study finds.
Bernd Blossey is close to the end of a research program that identified a leaf beetle, Galerucella birmanica, which feasts on water chestnuts, as the perfect predator to help clear New York's waters.
The Institute for the Social Sciences' newest project, China's Cities: Divisions and Plans, is an interdisciplinary collaborative effort among Cornell social scientists.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Cornell and UCSF researchers a four-year, $1 million grant to hone technology for in-the-field diagnosis of Kaposi's sarcoma – frequently related to HIV infections.
