Statler offers local students hospitality career skills training

Students from Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Board of Cooperative Education Services career skills program come to campus to expand their vocational skills through a hands-on program at the Statler Hotel.

Solar-powered tag allows tracking of songbird migration

Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology David Winkler has developed the first lifetime-solar-powered tag for small songbirds to track them.

Big Ideas panel explores the risks of humanitarianism

Cornell professors Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò and Elizabeth Anker explored "Humanitarianism and its Discontents" in Klarman Hall's Groos Family Atrium on April 25.

Harkness era lacrosse players celebrate anniversary

Cornell lacrosse players from the 1960s gathered on April 23 to reminisce about their coach, the legendary Ned Harkness, who guided the Big Red to a 35-1 record and two Ivy titles from 1966-68.

Rawlings Scholars' research ranges from earworms to robots

From creating well-mannered robots to updating weed field guides to understanding why catchy songs turn into earworms, students showed their 2016 Senior Expo research projects April 21.

Grant to improve information access at Cornell Library

Cornell University Library will develop new tools and methods to better describe libraries’ scholarly information resources and share them, thanks to a $1.5 million Mellon Foundation grant.

Noliwe Rooks, Bryan Duff named Kaplan Faculty Fellows

Noliwe Rooks and Bryan Duff were named 2016 Kaplan Family Faculty Fellowship in Service-Learning award April 21.

Cornell group aids in Nepal earthquake recovery

Nepalis affected by the April 2015 earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people visited campus April 11-15 to meet members of the Cornell-Nepal Earthquake Recovery Partnership.

Evolutionary biologist Rick Harrison dies at 70

Richard "Rick" Harrison, Ph.D. ’77, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a pioneer in his field, died unexpectedly April 12 while visiting Lizard Island, Australia.