Beth Lyon to direct Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic

This summer, Cornell Law School welcomes new clinical faculty member Beth Lyon, founder of Cornell’s Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic, which assists farm workers and rural immigrant communities.

Physics major helping space tourism get off the ground

Physics student Joseph Parisi '18 leads a task on predicative analytics for balloon and payload trajectories as an intern at World View, a space tourism start-up.

Faculty help diversify the op-ed landscape

Faculty members have received special coaching to help them express their ideas in popular media through the Public Voices Fellows program.

Woubshet finds poetry amid loss in the early era of AIDS

Associate professor of English Dagmawi Woubshet finds a "poetics of compounding loss" among mourners responding to AIDS deaths in the U.S. and Ethiopia in his new book, "The Calendar of Loss."

Todd Walter named director of Water Resources Institute

Todd Walter, associate professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, has been appointed director of the New York State Water Resources Institute, effective July 1.

4-H teens get a taste for college at Career Explorations

At the annual 4-H Career Explorations conference, tasting mealworms wasn't the only thing on the menu, as 360 teens and 80 adult chaperones sampled a variety of scientific pursuits.

Physics professor Chris Henley dies at 59

Christopher L. Henley, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, died June 29 after an illness. He was 59 years old.

Students spend summer incubating their business ideas

While most Cornell students headed home for the summer, a group of entrepreneurial undergrads and graduate students are staying in Ithaca for intensive business development as part of the new Life Changing Labs summer incubator.

Undergrads from across country visit for summer research

Undergraduates from across the country are spending several weeks at Cornell this summer researching topics in accelerator physics or X-ray science thanks to two programs funded by the National Science Foundation.