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Undergrad marshals resources to build school in Haiti

Community engagement is the key for an energetic team of Cornell undergraduates working to build an inclusive-education school in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

Things to Do, May 16-23

Events this week include Mayfest chamber music concerts, student films, a lecture on dinosaurs, a 'Cosmos' campus screening, a Science Cabaret on fertility and a wellness celebration.

Students learn straight from the horse's mouth

Veterinary students in the Equine Specialty Rotation spent the week of May 5 working on equine dentistry to train them for real-world jobs when they graduate.

Engaged Learning + Research Faculty Fellows named

Eleven faculty members from nine Cornell departments have been named Engaged Learning + Research Faculty Fellows for 2014.

Plastic, 'wrong-way' dunes arise on Saturn moon Titan

A Cornell senior and researchers have narrowed theories on why the hydrocarbon dunes – think plastic – on Titan are oriented in an unexpected direction, a solar system eccentricity that has puzzled space scientists.

Dangerous, underpaid work for the undocumented

Undocumented workers do dangerous jobs without premium pay, and no compensation when they're hurt.

Reunioners can revel in new ice cream flavor

For their 60th reunion, David and Mary Call helped create a new flavor of ice cream at the Cornell Dairy Bar. Big Red Reunion Revel features a white chocolate, cherry swirl and chocolate chunks.

Paleoanthropologist Kenneth Kennedy dies at 83

A memorial service for Kenneth A.R. Kennedy, the "father of human paleoanthropology" in South Asia and 41-year Cornell faculty member, will be June 14 at St. John's Episcopal Church in Ithaca.

Climate change caused empire's fall, tree rings reveal

Archaeologist Sturt Manning and colleagues have precisely dated an arid climate event circa 2200 B.C. through tree ring samples taken from an Egyptian coffin.

X-rays, computer simulations reveal crystal growth

Cornell scientists used a very tiny, extremely bright X-ray beam to make high-speed movies of how spreadable organic molecules formed crystal lattices at the nanoscale.

CCMR symposium to explore nanoscale spin

Recent advances in measuring and controlling nanoscale spin systems is the theme of this year’s Cornell Center for Materials Research symposium, May 20.

Teens kindle leadership and life skills at 4-H summit

Nearly 300 middle school and high school 4-H members gathered in Syracuse last month at a three-day summit about learning leadership and life skills at fun-filled workshops.