Gender matters to the 16 trainers and 11 teams of 33 researchers from four continents who will participate in a course on “Gender Responsive Root, Tuber and Banana Breeding,” Sept. 12-21 in Uganda.
English professor George Hutchinson is the fifth director of the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, whose programs serve Cornell students in every school and college.
A Cornell audio producer has won a prestigious communication award for a radio series on biologists – including many from Cornell – who use sound to understand the natural world.
Cornell host two major events honoring the Africana Center: a screening and panel discussion of the film "Agents of Change," and the dedication of the original Africana Center site, which was destroyed by suspected arson in 1970.
Internet governance expert Martin Mueller will present the first in a series of lectures on questions at the intersection of technology, politics and international law.
Stanford University linguist John Rickford will deliver a talk, "Justice for Jeantel (and Trayvon): Fighting Dialect Prejudice in Courtrooms and Beyond," Sept. 15 at 4:30 p.m. in Klarman Hall.
Two Cornell experts in artificial intelligence have joined a nationwide team setting out to ensure that when computers are running the world, they will make decisions compatible with human values.
A new collaboration between Cornell's Jewish Studies Program and the Center for Jewish History in New York City will launch Sept. 27 with a three-part lecture series featuring Cornell faculty.
Cornell researchers are engineering planar bacterial outer membrane-like supported bilayers, which have potential in the screening of antibiotics as well as cell-free and other applications.
Striving for a future with smaller electric bills and a diminished need for more power plants, the NSF has awarded Cornell researchers $1 million to improve new residential electric storage systems.
Posting personal experiences on social media makes those events much easier to recall, according to a new study by Qi Wang, professor of human development. The research is the first to look at social media's effect on memory.
