New school positions plant and soil science for the future

Five departments in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences – Plant Biology, Horticulture, Plant Breeding and Genetics, Crop and Soil Sciences, and Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology – have been consolidated into the School of Integrative Plant Science.

At Reunion, honoring Cornell's post-WWI work in Belgium

Medals awarded to College of Human Ecology founders Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose by the Belgian king in 1925 will be displayed at Reunion.

Things to Do, June 6-July 11

Events at Cornell include "Ask an Astronomer," classic films in the Cinema Under the Stars series and a variety of free summer lectures, performances and concerts.

Johnson to offer bilingual MBAs with Chinese university

The only dual MBA program to be offered in English and Mandarin will launch next year in a partnership between Johnson and China's Tsinghua University.

Postdoc brings open access issue to the table

This past spring, the University Assembly passed a resolution establishing a committee to study how an open-access policy at Cornell would work.

Maya Lin's 'Sound Ring' unveiled at Lab of Ornithology

The “Sound Ring”sculpture is the latest work from renowned artist Maya Lin, designed as a gift to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for its conservation efforts around the world.

'Critical zone' study expands with $1.4M NSF award

The study of what earth scientists call the “critical zone” – the area where rock, water soil, organisms and the atmosphere meet – is expanding with a $1.4 million National Science Foundation grant.

Two student teams win ECE innovation awards

Teams Pulso and Saund were the spring semester's ECE Innovation Award winners.

Experience Cornell's 'concierge,' the new cornell.edu

Cornell's front page on the Web has been redesigned to emphasize what's happening today.