“Black Lives Matter” is the theme of a community celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan. 18 in Ithaca, and founders of the Black Lives Matter movement will come to Cornell Feb. 3 for the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture.
Emeritus food science professor David K. Bandler donated 17.43 acres to Cornell Plantations' Fischer Old-Growth Forest Natural Area in the Town of Newfield. The preserve protects nearly 60 acres.
Cornell Local Roads Program (CLRP) provides training and technical assistance to address maintenance of roadways and bridges across New York state. CLRP signed a new three-year to continue its work.
On Dec. 15, science illustrator and artist Jane Kim completed the only known mural in the world with paintings that encompass all families of birds on one wall.
Cornell's MPA program, offered though the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, has launched a new fellowship program that will provide graduate school scholarships to returned Peace Corps volunteers.
Cornell hopes to bring nanotech to young students in the area with the establishment of CNF Ambassadors, an outreach program being run by the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility.
Cornell Tech and Roosevelt Island public school P.S./I.S. 217 on Dec. 10 unveiled a three-year program that will train teachers to incorporate computer science activity across the curriculum.
Benedict Anderson, a Cornell professor emeritus in government who wrote “Imagined Communities,” the book that set the pace for the academic study of nationalism, died Dec. 13 in East Java, Indonesia. He was 79.
Public affairs students took on projects this fall for nonprofit, for-profit and government organizations around the world, from Danby, New York, to Haiti, Honduras, Mexico and Panama.
