The Cornell International Friendship Program pairs local residents with international students and scholars to promote friendships and make the students' experiences more homey.
Cornell received three grants, one for $3.5 million, to collect data on the biology of the Great Lakes, information that continues long-term datasets and provides current measures for researchers, fishery managers and policy makers.
The Martin Y. Tang International Scholarship Challenge has raised $4.39 million in endowment gifts from 12 families, resulting in a 19 percent increase in scholarship support for undergraduate international students at Cornell and support for five graduate fellowships.
To help introduce new members of the university's faculty to the Cornell community, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles for the 2013-14 academic year.
Graduate student Ayuen Ajok recently told middle school students what it was like to be a Lost Boy of Sudan. He fled his village in 1987 and walked for thousands of miles, often without food or water.
Cornell researchers have discovered a temporary molecular traffic system that starts embryos' organs growing in the proper direction and, without it, will trigger devastating diseases and defects.
A pair of common kitchen ingredients inspired Cornell researchers’ improvement of the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries, a promising alternative to today’s lithium-ion batteries.
