Andrew G. Clark, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Population Genetics and Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Students will receive national recognition by United Way Worldwide for their support of the United Way of Tompkins County Stephen E. Garner Summers of Service Program May 2 in Nashville, Tenn.
Long portrayed as stagnant, the income growth of the U.S. middle class may be more than 10 times greater than previously suggested by some economists, according to Cornell research.
The winner of the annual high school fashion design competition is Alyssa Kim, whose design was fabricated by Cornell students and modeled April 28 at the Cornell Design League show.
Cornell students recognized the impact that staff have had on their lives at the first student-nominated staff recognition dinner, held April 26 in the atrium of the Physical Sciences building.
This fall, there will be a new big cheese on campus. Cornell Big Red Cheddar is slated to hit campus eateries and the shelves of the Cornell Store in November. (April 30, 2012)
In class projects, landscape architecture and real estate students teamed up to create designs of the built environment for the CornellNYC Tech campus. (April 30, 2012)
Two Cornellians from Africa have created a body suit embedded at the molecular level with insecticides to ward off mosquitoes infected with deadly malaria. The outfit could provide daytime protection.
Benzion Netanyahu, the father of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and emeritus professor of Judaic studies who taught at Cornell from 1971 to 1975, died April 30 in Jerusalem. He was 102. (April 30, 2012)