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Cornell water tests safe despite lead controversy nearby

With lead reported in Tompkins County communities and schools, the faculty, students and staff have been asking, 'Is Cornell’s water safe to drink?' Yes, said Chris Bordlemay, the university's water manager.

Team aids mountain societies facing climate change

A team of scientists – led by a Cornell professor of natural resources – will help mountain communities in Asia recalibrate their seasonal-indicator ecological calendars to reckon the effects of climate change.

Music department's curriculum playing a new tune

With the music department's new curriculum, students will now find a more flexible route through the program and an emphasis on improvisation and other techniques.

Author Ron Chernow discusses hip-hop musical 'Hamilton'

The best-selling author of "Alexander Hamilton" spoke to Weill Cornell Medicine students March 1 about his collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda on the wildly popular musical.

Cornell takes big red pen to Wikipedia life sciences content

Students, staff and faculty came together on March at Mann Library to improve the quality of agriculture and life sciences content on Wikipedia.

Durland lecturer: Diversify skills, experiences to lead

Michael B. Polk, president and CEO of Newell Rubbermaid, delivered the annual Durland lecture March 14 at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Calculator estimates your risk of poverty during next 15 years

Now Americans can judge how close they are to falling into poverty, thanks to a new calculator developed by Cornell sociologist Thomas Hirschl and his collaborators. For many, the answer will be they are perilously close.

Union Days speaker: ‘there are no jobs on a dead planet’

Jeffrey Vogt of the International Trade Union Confederation spoke on campus March 17 about the domestic and international status of the trade union movement at the ILR School's Union Days.

Ground-nesting bees on farms lack food, grow smaller

According to a recent study, the size of a common ground-nesting bee – an important crop pollinator – has grown smaller in heavily farmed landscapes.

Add your voice to Klarman Hall time capsule

The College of Arts and Sciences hopes to capture life at Cornell today – especially the role of the humanities in our lives – as it assembles a time capsule to be buried May 26.

Metal-foam hybrid has potential in soft robotics, aeronautics

The lab of engineering professor Rob Shepherd has developed a hybrid material featuring soft metal and porous elastic polymer foam that could be used to make a morphing airplane wing.

Enzyme inhibitor looks promising against cancer

A Cornell multi-site research team has developed a chemical compound that shows promise as a oncoprotein inhibitor with broad anti-cancer activity and little effect on non-cancerous cells.