Extension trains students to create climate for change

Two hundred teens and preteens from 16 school districts in southeastern New York learned how to decrease their schools’ environmental impact at the Catskills Youth Climate Change Summit March 11.

Hotel Ezra Cornell delves into 'The New Normal' in hospitality

The School of Hotel Administration's signature annual business conference will focus on the unprecedented change facing many sectors of the hospitality industry, welcoming more than 200 guests March 17-20.

Threatened plants have rosier future with BTI technique

Researchers at the Cornell-affiliated Boyce Thompson Institute developed a test tube tissue culture procedure that multiplies the number of woodland agrimony plants to propagate the plant.

Rui Hai Liu's whole grains research earns nutrition prize

Food science professor Dr. Rui Hai Liu won the 2016 General Mills Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition Innovation Award for his contributions to cereal grain and grain component research.

UN Ambassador Brahimi joins Einaudi for residency

Lakhdar Brahimi, a veteran diplomat and former special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, is on campus as the Einaudi Center's first International Practitioner-in-Residence.

New book sheds light on high U.S. incarceration rate

In his new book, “Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World," Peter Enns sheds new light on the high U.S. rate of incarceration.

Lunches bring Latina/o Studies community together

Each semester, the Latina/o Studies Program hosts six informal luncheon discussions for students with Cornell faculty and administrators as “a way to bring the community together."

'One Funny Ithaca Story' benefits local cancer center

Featuring Mayor Svante Myrick and several Cornell staff members, the second annual "One Funny Ithaca Story," March 20, will benefit the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes.

Engineering Simulation MOOC teaches pro skills

Cornell’s newest MOOC will give thousands of students worldwide an opportunity to learn skills that are regularly taught to the university's undergraduate engineering students on campus.