“About Cornell,” a sesquicentennial magazine containing essays by students in an intermediate Chinese reading and writing course, will be sold in the Cornell Store later this spring.
Victor Nee, director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society, has received a $1.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to study capitalist institutions in China.
Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science. He will be honored at a March 30 reception at Rockefeller University.
The 2015 Lund Critical Debate March 3 brought a former U.S. ambassador to the Middle East and a scholar together to debate whether U.S. policy in the region works.
The Statler Hotel won the AAA Four Diamond Award for the fifth year in a row, one of 14 lodging establishments in central and western New York to receive the honor.
A Cornell research team is joining local efforts to help design a socio-ecological corridor that could help save endangered, threatened, endemic species in Ecuador's Andes region.
Once a week, students in Cornell's Food Recovery Network chapter pack up leftover food from the Becker House and Robert Purcell Marketplace Eatery warming ovens for distribution to local food pantries.
Michael McFaul, U.S. ambassador to Russia 2012-14, will deliver the 2015 Bartels World Affairs Lecture, “A New Cold War? Explaining Russia’s New Confrontation with the West” March 16.
Dr. Harold Varmus, director of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, is internationally recognized for his research on retroviruses and the genetic basis of cancer.
