Study: Drug may curb female infertility from cancer treatments

An existing drug may one day protect premenopausal women against life-altering infertility that commonly follows cancer treatments, according to a new study.

New initiative bridges plant breeding digital divide

The Open-source Breeding Informatics Initiative is helping bring cutting-edge crop breeding tools to breeders in developing countries.

‘Building Sustainable Communities’ forum is Sept. 28-29

Cornell’s Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI) hosts “Building Sustainable Communities: Global Forces, Local Focus,” Sept. 28-29 on campus to help communities become more sustainable.

Animal depictions in the ancient world explored in conference

“Zoographein – Depicting and Describing Animals in Greece, Rome, and Beyond,” will be held Sept. 8 to 10 at Cornell.

Speakers will discuss ending racism, how to talk about race

Two authors and nationally known experts on race and racial issues, F. Michael Higginbotham and Beverly Tatum, are coming to campus for free public talks Sept. 12-13.

Cornell projects to cultivate digital agriculture landscape

A slate of six projects totaling more than $1 million has been announced to generate innovative research in the combined fields of agriculture, computation and engineering.

Language Resource Center opens in Stimson Hall

After 25 years in Noyes Lodge, the Language Resource Center has a new mission and a new space on the ground floor of Stimson Hall.

Dark-skinned whites arrested more than those with lighter skin

A new Cornell study finds the darker a white man's skin is, the more likely he is to be arrested, compared to lighter-skinned white men. In contrast, black men, no matter how dark or light their skin, get arrested at the same rate.

Lecture series to explore how law, new technologies interact

Emerging technologies and the legal and policy challenges surrounding them are the focal points of a new lecture series beginning this fall.