Weill Cornell's Cantley wins Wolf Prize in Medicine

Dr. Lewis C. Cantley, the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded the 2016 Wolf Prize in Medicine for his research discoveries.

Black Lives Matter community events to commemorate King

“Black Lives Matter” is the theme of a community celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan. 18 in Ithaca, and founders of the Black Lives Matter movement will come to Cornell Feb. 3 for the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture.

Gift expands Plantations' old-growth forest preserve

Emeritus food science professor David K. Bandler donated 17.43 acres to Cornell Plantations' Fischer Old-Growth Forest Natural Area in the Town of Newfield. The preserve protects nearly 60 acres.

Cornell boasts leading cybersecurity research group

Four Cornell computer scientists - Ari Juels, Rafael Pass, Thomas Ristenpart and Vitaly Shmatikov - are members of a new cybersecurity, privacy and cryptography reach group at Cornell Tech.

Arts and Sciences faculty can apply for digital grants

College of Arts and Sciences faculty and graduate students are invited to submit proposals to digitize Cornell collections by Jan. 31. more than two dozen faculty members place collections online.

McGovern incubator embraces Embark and Ecolectro

Cornell's McGovern Center for Venture Development welcomed two start-up companies Jan. 7 to its incubator space: Ecolectro and Embark Veterinary.

'Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist' on view in Washington

Native American artist and Professor Emerita Kay WalkingStick has her first major solo retrospective at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

Study: Transparency key in decision to label modified ingredients

A Cornell study finds consumers are supportive of labeling decisions when they believe the company considered the public’s input. It bolsters research into perceived fairness in decision-making.

Three Cornellians among inaugural Schwarzman Scholars

A new program modeled on the Rhodes Scholarship will include three Cornellians among its 111-member inaugural class: Juliana Batista ’16, Atticus DeProspo ’15 and Andrew Schoen ’12. They were chosen among 3,000 applicants.