Woubshet finds poetry amid loss in the early era of AIDS

Associate professor of English Dagmawi Woubshet finds a "poetics of compounding loss" among mourners responding to AIDS deaths in the U.S. and Ethiopia in his new book, "The Calendar of Loss."

Russians to fight alfalfa snout beetle with expert help

Russian farmers are visiting northern New York state to meet with a Cornell expert to learn how to tackle devastating alfalfa snout beetles native to their homeland.

Agreement to bring Costa Rican grad students to Cornell

A memorandum of understanding between Cornell and Costa Rica will bring more graduate students to the university to study public administration in the College of Human Ecology.

$100M gift names Bloomberg Center at Cornell Tech

On Roosevelt Island June 16, with the Manhattan skyline in the background, Cornell Tech announced a $100 million gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies to help fund construction of the campus.

The Bridge at Cornell Tech to connect academia, business

A building to rise at the heart of Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island campus - the Bridge at Cornell Tech - will offer space to startups and established companies pushing the edge of digital technology.

Flores-Macías studies Colombian security tax on country's elite

Research by professor of government Gustavo Flores-Macías on Colombian security taxes reveals how the government was able to tax the economic elite to benefit state security.

Alumni hear international relations predictions

Cornell faculty offered their forecasts on international relations in Current Events Roundtable: America and the World, a Reunion Weekend event held June 5.

Tweet! Upload your bird photos, and Merlin IDs species

In a breakthrough for computer vision and for bird-watching, researchers and bird enthusiasts have enabled computers to achieve a task that stumps most humans - identifying hundreds of bird species pictured in photos.

Symposium explores broadening Cornell's global curriculum

Faculty, students and administrators discussed global experiences, opportunities and challenges on campus and abroad at a recent symposium on Internationalizing the Curriculum at Cornell.