ILR School staff and faculty recognized for excellence, service

The School of Industrial and Labor Relations held its 2018 Employee Recognition Ceremony May 15 in the ILR Conference Center, recognizing staff and faculty for their service and accomplishments.

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Statement on decision of independent arbitrator on graduate student election result

Vice President for University Relations Joel Malina issued a statement May 17 on the decision by an arbitrator to uphold the March 2017 graduate student election, directing that its result be certified.

Graduate student grants fund community-engaged projects

Engaged Graduate Student Grants will support 21 Cornell doctoral students and their community partners researching a range of topics. 

CURB galvanizes Puerto Rican students’ lab experience

Visiting students from hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico honed their science skills by shadowing and working in laboratories across campus this semester.

Self-assembling 3D battery would charge in seconds

Uli Wiesner and collaborators have developed a block copolymer self-assembled 3D energy storage architecture that could help change the way batteries are constructed.

Two named 2018 Kaplan Faculty Fellows for service-learning work

Two Cornell faculty members were awarded the 2018 Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship on April 24.

Register now for the annual supplier show June 1

Procurement Services will host its annual supplier show Thursday, June 1, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. in Barton Hall.

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Psychologist explores happiness, memory and identity

Shimon Edelman, professor of psychology, says we can’t have it all when it comes to happiness, identity, and extreme longevity, and explains why we’ll have to give up one to keep the others.

Atkinson Center brainstorms solutions for carbon removal

An Atkinson Center workshop May 4 looked for ways to use Cornell research to draw carbon out of the air and oceans and sequester it.