The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Cornell $18.5 million for a project that will give modular, open-source breeding software resources to plant breeders in the developing world.
Zhiming Shen, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Computer Science, has received a 2015 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award to support his research in cloud computing.
Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, will speak on “Six Degrees of Separation” Sunday, April 26, 1-2:15 p.m. at Bailey Hall, as part of Charter Day.
Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s Celebration conference, April 16-17, will bring more than 200 alumni to campus for networking, panel discussions and speakers celebrating entrepreneurship at the university.
For a week beginning April 13, the portion of East Avenue located between the traffic-control gates will be closed to all vehicular traffic, including buses and bicycles, to facilitate road repairs.
Actor and environmental activist Ted Danson will deliver the Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture, “Fish Tales: How Ocean Conservation Became My Passion,” Monday, April 20 at 5 p.m.
Boyce Thompson Institute professor Maria Harrison is the 2015 winner of the Dennis R. Hoagland Award for her research into the symbiotic relationship between plant roots and fungi.
Thinking in pictures and shapes – rather than mere words – will lead to improved consumer sensory memories about wine, said Kathryn LaTour at the inaugural Women of the Vine symposium, held in March at Napa, California.
Musician Wynton Marsalis, artist Xu Bing, philosopher Bruno Latour, political scholar Theda Skocpol and astrophysicist David Stevenson, Ph.D. ’76, are Cornell's newest A.D. White Professors-at-Large.
