Maria Harrison wins Hoagland Award for plant research

Boyce Thompson Institute professor Maria Harrison is the 2015 winner of the Dennis R. Hoagland Award for her research into the symbiotic relationship between plant roots and fungi.

Drawing upon the senses leads to good wine memories

Thinking in pictures and shapes – rather than mere words – will lead to improved consumer sensory memories about wine, said Kathryn LaTour at the inaugural Women of the Vine symposium, held in March at Napa, California.

Marsalis, Xu Bing among new Professors-at-Large

Musician Wynton Marsalis, artist Xu Bing, philosopher Bruno Latour, political scholar Theda Skocpol and astrophysicist David Stevenson, Ph.D. ’76, are Cornell's newest A.D. White Professors-at-Large.

Vonnegut's anti-war novel chosen for reading project

This fall, freshmen and new transfer students will read the classic Kurt Vonnegut Jr. '44 novel "Slaughterhouse-Five," the 2015 choice for the New Student Reading Project.

Social science, art to connect in New York City event

Internationally renowned social scientists from Cornell and other institutions are getting together with artists on April 18 for a "salon" convened by the Institute for the Social Sciences.

High fashion comes to the Hill April 11

Student fashion designers are sketching and making patterns, finding and fitting models, and cutting and sewing fabrics for the 31st Cornell Fashion Collective runway show, Saturday, April 11 at 8 p.m. in Barton Hall.

Cornell to offer two classes with Congolese university

Cornell University will partner with the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Eben-Ezer University of Minembwe to offer two virtual courses, one on peace building and another on African disease patterns.

New incubator offers summer help for startups

The Summer Startup Incubator Program from Life Changing Labs, supported in part by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, plans to serve six to eight teams this summer. Applications are due April 10.

STEM center receives $130,000 grant for expansion

Cornell University Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning received a $130,000 grant to prepare future STEM faculty to be great researchers and teachers.