In a Cornell Perspectives piece, Pedro Menchik, a Brazilian doctoral student in the field of food science at Cornell, offers suggestions to increase voter turnout in the United States.
All members of the Cornell community are asked to take such energy-conserving steps as closing laboratory fume hoods and windows, turning off office lights, and shutting down office equipment.
Six custodial staff members were recognized with the annual Bartels Award for Custodial Service Excellence Dec. 15, endowed by Phil Bartels '71 and family eight years ago. Also recognized were this year's recipients of the Bartels Scholarships.
The College of Arts and Sciences’ Active Learning Initiative has changed the curricula in biology and physics and implemented the use of new classroom technologies.
Seeking to protect healthcare workers from the precarious nature of taking off soiled gloves when working with Ebola patients, Cornell students have developed a duplex solution to a complex problem: a double-layer system.
Inventor and MIT professor Robert Langer '70, who holds nearly 1,100 patents and founded more than 25 companies, has been named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2015.
Passionate about strengthening sustainability, battling climate change and improving a polluted world, Cornell students met Dec. 6 to begin forming an alliance of more than three dozen campus sustainability groups.
