Rawlings voices concerns about grad student unionization

Interim President Hunter Rawlings has sent a letter to the Cornell community outlining the university's position on graduate student unionization and offering his perspective on how issues of unionization could affect graduate education at Cornell.

Statement on graduate assistant unionization

Interim President Hunter Rawlings sent a message Oct. 27 offering his perspective on potential union representation of graduate students at Cornell.

Knuth updates GPSA on strategic progress and student debt

Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School Barbara Knuth updated the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Oct. 24 on progress on the Graduate and Professional Community Initiative.

3 grad students win Fulbright-Hays fellowships

Three graduate students have received Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education to support their international research.

Cornell Tech grads' Uru seeks wide-open (video) spaces

Two Cornell Tech master's graduates have won a World Congress on Information Technology award for their computer-vision invention, Uru, which projects advertising onto blank surfaces in a video.

New website helps faculty, staff Navigate travel planning

A new website called Navigate is designed to save Cornell faculty members time and reduce stress in handling off-campus teaching, research and engagement, nationally and internationally.

Two with Cornell ties share 2016 Nobel Prize in physics

David J. Thouless, Ph.D. '58, and former postdoctoral researcher J. Michael Kosterlitz share the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in topological phase transitions of matter.

Graduate students bring expertise to local schools

A volunteer program is connecting graduate students in the sciences and other fields with K-12 classrooms to teach mini-courses in Tompkins, Cayuga and Seneca county schools.

China honors computer scientist John Hopcroft

Professor John Hopcroft received China's Friendship Award for helping to upgrade their higher education system.