Schwartz research award applications due Dec. 11

Women and underrepresented minority faculty members engaging in life science research have until Dec. 11 to apply for a grant from the Schwartz Research Fund for Women and Other Underrepresented Faculty in the Life Sciences.

NIH extends funding of research into deadly Nipah virus

A Cornell researcher is studying Nipah virus in an effort to understand the basic mechanisms of transmission and infection, which are necessary steps toward vaccine development and other therapies.

Abolitionist scholars featured in virtual events

In two related virtual events, the Humanities Scholars Program, together with the Africana Studies and Research Center, will examine the topic of abolitionism from a scholarly and community perspective.

Swipe, match, eat: ‘Weet’ pitches better online dating app

A proposed dating app won the $3,000 top prize in the fifth annual Cornell Hospitality Pitch Deck Competition sponsored by the School of Hotel Administration’s Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship.

Susan Daniel wields biomolecular weapons to fight COVID-19

Years before COVID-19 turned into a global pandemic, biomolecular engineer Susan Daniel was already looking for ways to defeat it. Now she’s expanding her coronavirus studies, blending engineering with virology and data science.

Cornell to resume full retirement benefits and salaries

Cornell President Martha E. Pollack sent the following message Nov. 17: Last summer, as the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic were becoming clear, we held a number of meetings and town halls to describe those impacts and…

New book examines works of famed Chicano artist, activist

Ella Maria Diaz, associate professor of Latina/o studies and English in the College of Arts and Sciences, examines the life and work of vanguard Chicano artist, poet, professor and activist José Montoya in her new book.

The gift of clean air: Cornellian donates purifiers to Statler

Phil Yuen ’00 and his company, Aurabeat Technology, has donated 30 of the company’s air purification units to the Statler Hotel, which has been used to house students in isolation because of COVID-19.

Malinowska explores Haiti’s Polish heritage at the Hirshhorn

A film by sculptor Joanna Malinowska, showing virtually at the Hirshhorn Museum through Nov. 30, investigates the unusual, unexpected and sometimes bizarre ways in which people interpret their histories and construct identities.