In events held at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and at Weill Cornell Medicine March 17, students, faculty and staff paid tribute to Cornell's late preside, Elizabeth Garrett.
City University of New York professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore delivered the Krieger Lecture at Cornell March 2 on "Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police."
The student group Mixed at Cornell received the recently renamed James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony, March 16 in Willard Straight Hall.
Cornell professors Laura Harrington and Alaka Basu briefed the Washington, D.C., press March 15 on the fight against the mosquito-spread Zika virus, which threatens pregnant women worldwide.
The College of Arts and Sciences' fourth Big Ideas Panel, part of its New Century for the Humanities celebration, explored technology in the humanities March 15 with humanists and technologists.
Events on campus include a Cornell Cinema benefit and dance party, a rare 17th-century opera, young ornithologists sharing their research and a University Lecture by Islam scholar Sherman Jackson.
Focus groups were held the week of March 7 to help understand housing concerns and needs, both on and off campus. Upcoming student surveys will deepen that understanding.
Séamus Davis, Cornell’s James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences, received the Science Foundation Ireland's prestigious its St. Patrick’s Day Science Medal on March 16.
A $24 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will expand the scope of a global partnership to combat climate-change-induced heat stress and disease pathogens in crops.
