English professor Thomas Hill will deliver Cornell Plantations’ 2013 William H. and Jane Torrence Harder Lecture Aug. 28 at 5:30 p.m. in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, titled “Pagan and Christian Trees: From Ambrose to ‘Juniper Tree.’”
Citing research transforming our scientific view of the heavens, the American Astronomical Society will give astronomy professor Joe Burns the 2014 Dirk Brouwer Award.
Jeremy Handrup and Erin Ferro-Murray, students in the course Parasites! The Art and Media of Imposition, devised art projects that explore the notion of parasites in different settings.
The Class of 2017 – 3,282 freshmen from 48 states and 56 countries – reflects significant gains in diversity at Cornell, with the highest recorded numbers of students of color, black/African-American students and international citizens in an incoming class.
Undergraduates in the lab of Nelson Hairston, the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Environmental Science, perform scientific research in a supportive atmosphere.
Associate professor of English Philip Lorenz studies the representations of sovereignty and power in the work of William Shakespeare and two other Renaissance playwrights in his new book, "The Tears of Sovereignty."
The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities awarded Stephen Philip Johnson, Cornell vice president for government and community relations, with its Betty Colden Memorial Awards Aug. 9 in Charleston, S.C.
For the first time, Cornell University ranked fifth among Sierra magazine’s Ten Coolest Schools in the country, earning that spot for the environmental mindset on campus.
Computer scientist Lillian Lee has been named a fellow of thee Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for her work in natural language processing.
