To review current astrobiological knowledge and assess the prospects of life beyond Earth, the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology heard testimony Sept. 29 from Cornell’s Jonathan Lunine.
With a $1 million Mellon grant and a goal of building a model college-in-prison network, the Cornell Prison Education Program will expand to offer classes and degree programs in four upstate prisons.
Cornell is among more than 80 schools to join the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, a new initiative to improve the college application and admissions process for all students.
A graduate student and two undergraduates spent the summer studying zooplankton species in Adirondack lakes to learn to determine whether they can live in different environments.
Entrepreneur Barry Beck ’90 returned to campus Sept. 25 to share business advice with ILR School students. He is the founder of Bluemercury, a fast-growing luxury beauty products and retail spa chain.
Cornell University became part of a coalition to help enhance the quality of life for working parents and their newborns at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting Sept. 29.
CUSLAR, the Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations, celebrated its 50th anniversary with events on campus that brought back former members to reflect on future challenges facing Latin America.
William B. Gould IV, LLB '61, returned to Cornell to visit the papers he gave to the ILR School's Kheel Center covering baseball, workplace racial discrimination and conflict resolution procedures.
Two law professors, the authors of new books, spoke on campus Sept. 25 about evidence they had uncovered that identifies the first African-American Cornell Law School graduate and a Civil War veteran.
