Benedict Anderson, a Cornell professor emeritus in government who wrote “Imagined Communities,” the book that set the pace for the academic study of nationalism, died Dec. 13 in East Java, Indonesia. He was 79.
Engaged Cornell is launching grant programs for doctoral students and for student teams, designed to enhance partnerships with community-engaged research and scholarship in New York state and beyond.
For the first time, a litter of puppies was born by in vitro fertilization, thanks to work by Cornell researchers. The breakthrough opens the door for conserving endangered canid species and using gene-editing technologies to eradicate heritable diseases.
Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School Barbara Knuth presented climate survey results and students brainstormed ideas for more inclusion at Cornell at a Nov. 16 campus dinner.
A new Web portal for students with families aims to help them acclimate and integrate into the Cornell community and centralizes policies, resources and support structures that pertain to them.
Cornell researchers will travel to Paris as part of the university's delegation to the global climate change summit, COP21. Delegations from over 190 countries and more than 50,000 people will attend.
From its founding Cornell has been a secular institution, but when the university offered the School for Missionaries from 1930 to 1964 – a four-week course for missionaries on furlough – it became instantly popular.
Cornell biomedical engineers have developed specialized white blood cells – dubbed "super natural killer cells" – that seek out cancer cells in lymph nodes with only one purpose: destroy them.
A procedure established in 2014 makes it easier for graduate and professional students to get the assistance they need when injured on university property or while engaged in a university-sponsored activity.
