A working group has formed to reduce some of the administrative burdens felt by faculty and academic staff, beginning with developing metrics to calculate the hidden costs associated with implementing new policies and procedures.
A new study in Science reveals that biodiversity in forests promotes productivity. When the number of tree species increases, so does the amount of timber that can be harvested, so the gains from conservation far exceed the costs.
"Witness Project" art installations on sites across campus are featuring representations of and responses to police violence, including photographs from the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Cornell Small Farms Program Farm Ops initiative helped Kreher's Poultry Farm in Clarence, New York, receive approval as the state's first on-the-job training program for military veterans to become farmers.
The Cornell faculty Senate on Oct. 12 passed a resolution encouraging the board of trustees to approve "Cornell Botanic Gardens" as the new name of Cornell Plantations.
Jenny Sabin and collaborator Peter Lloyd Jones debuted their progressive experimental design installation "THE BEACON" Oct. 6, continuing over 10 days at the DesignPhiladelphia 2016 exposition.
In giving the 10th annual President's Address to Staff, Interim President Hunter Rawlings stressed the need for staff involvement in university concerns and collaboration across campus and among Cornell's three New York state campuses.
Award-winning author and literature scholar Seth Lerer, a visiting professor at Cornell this fall, will give the 2016 M.H. Abrams Lecture, Oct. 20 in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
The quality of an idea is can be influenced by the way its discovery is described, according to new research by a postdoctoral researcher in the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research.
Among U.S. teens who are frequent smokers, nearly half of girls and one-third of boys smoke to control their weight, according to a new study. Even more common is smoking to lose weight among teens who feel "much too fat."
