Sophomore Gabe Dean became the 17th NCAA champion in Cornell wrestling history to lead four All-Americans en route to a fifth-place team finish. Dean, one of two Big Red finalists March 21, defeated Lehigh's Nathaniel Brown 6-2 in the finals.
Weill Cornell Medical College students learned where they will do their residency training – the next three to seven years of their medical careers – during national Match Day, March 20.
The Music and Medicine Initiative, a partnership between the Juilliard School and Weill Cornell, gives medical students the chance to continue their musical lives. The spring concert was held March 10 at Lincoln Center.
In a panel of new proposed federal dietary guidelines in Washington, D.C., March 18, two Cornell professors look at their potential impact and food-industry efforts to weaken the guidelines.
Computers are learning to recognize objects with near-human ability. But Cornell researchers have found that computers, like humans, can be fooled by optical illusions, which raises security concerns.
New York high school student Nosa Akol has received the 2015 4-H Youth in Action Award. Akol was selected from more than 80 candidates nationwide for driving positive community change and overcoming personal challenges.
Dining with Diverse Minds received the 21st annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony March 17 in Willard Straight Hall. Honorable mentions went to the Faculty Institute for Diversity and Breaking Bread.
Events this week include a dance festival and hip-hop symposium at the Schwartz Center, Cornell Cinema's Elegant Winter Party, a Messenger Lecture by Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña and Dragon Day.
Nominations for 10 awards to recognize the achievement and excellence of our scholar-leaders and campus partners by the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives (OADI) are due by March 27.
From distributing regalia to greeting guests, volunteers are needed to help support Charter Day Weekend, April 22-27. They will receive a movie ticket for each worked event and a Charter Day Weekend shirt.
Sifting through the center of the Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have made the first direct observations – using an infrared telescope aboard a modified Boeing 747 – of cosmic building-block dust that survived an ancient supernova.
A recent book by associate professor María Fernández, exploring Mexico’s visual culture over the past four centuries, has received an award as a work of Latin American art history.
