Two Cornellians taught 50 college students in Puerto Rico how to compost and spread the gospel of recycling on the island, which is running out of places to put garbage.
Jerome Ziegler, former dean of the College of Human Ecology and a leading expert on urban education, higher education and intergovernmental relations, died May 3 at age 88.
Vice President Susan Murphy issued a statement regarding an incident involving racial slurs and bottle throwing at 730 University Ave., home of Sigma Pi fraternity.
Cornell research has for the first time confirmed key predictions about how 'Cooper pairs' of electrons behave in new high-temperature superconductors.
Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new strategy for making energy-efficient, reliable nonvolatile magnetic memory devices, which retain information without electric power. (May 4, 2012)
Scientists might soon be able to uncover what gives particles mass and whether there are extra dimensions of space, said Lisa Randall, the spring 2012 Bethe lecturer. (May 4, 2012)
Graduate student Aoise Stratford's play 'The Unfortunates,' winner of the Gloria Ann Barnell Peter Playwright Competition, will be performed May 11-12 at the Morgan Opera House in Aurora, N.Y.
This year, for the first time, graduating students who do not have family coming to join them in Ithaca to celebrate the occasion can enjoy a full-course dinner May 26, 6:30-8 p.m.
Creative Writing Program faculty members Kenneth McClane and Maureen McCoy received heartfelt testimonials from colleagues at their reading April 19 in Goldwin Smith Hall's Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium.
Events on campus this week include student documentary film screenings, a concert premiere by graduate composer Taylan Cihan, and a talk on hydrofracking by energy policymaker John Deutch. (May 3, 2012)