Aquadro, Harrington, Nicholson win Weiss fellowships

Charles Aquadro, Laura Harrington and Sean Nicholson are recipients of the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship for outstanding teaching of undergraduates.

Board gives green light for new grad student housing

A developer for the site of the current Maplewood Park Apartments and a pre-development agreement were approved at a trustee committee meeting Jan. 28, the first step in increasing affordable housing for Cornell graduate and professional students.

Cornell to establish an integrated College of Business

Cornell University announced today that it will establish an integrated College of Business with the transformative excellence, scope and scale to cement the university’s position as a world-class center of teaching and research for business management and entrepreneurship.

Cornell names Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in recognition of the leadership of philanthropist

A combined $50 million commitment from Robert F. Smith '85, founder, chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, and the foundation of which he is a founding director will support chemical and biomolecular engineering and African-American and female students in Engineering in Ithaca and at Cornell Tech.

In India, students size up global apparel industry

Thirteen students and two faculty members from the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design traveled to India Jan. 2-16 in a class trip to visit textile and apparel production centers.

University shines at Cornell Day in Albany Jan. 26

New York's land-grant university brought its message of education, discovery and engagement to the state capital Jan. 26 for Cornell Day in Albany, and took the opportunity to show off its diverse offerings to lawmakers and visitors alike.

Things to Do, Jan. 29-Feb. 5, 2016

Event this week include a public opening reception at the Johnson Museum, a community climate change panel, "Jane Austen Book Club" author Karen Joy Fowler, and a book talk by economist Kaushik Basu.

Campus water: New cooling loops save millions of gallons

A series of new and innovative projects at Cornell's Central Energy Plant aims to significantly cut campus water use by millions of gallons a year.

With treatments, AIDS survival rates in Haiti equal to U.S.

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have found that the survival rate of treated Haitian AIDS patients is equal to American patients, despite poverty and economic and political obstacles.