The university has chosen Pritzer Prize winner Thom Mayne and Morphosis to design the first academic building for the tech campus on Roosevelt Island. Cornell is striving to create a net-zero energy structure.
Sigma Pi fraternity has been placed on interim suspension pending the outcome of an investigation of alleged racially motivated harassment May 6. Cornell will hold a series of conversations addressing bias May 9.
In the study, 20 percent of women and 9 percent of men identified themselves as 'mostly heterosexual,' a finding that supports using a more nuanced 5-point scale for depicting sexual orientation.
An ad hoc committee commissioned has continued to revise its proposed academic calendar to address faculty and student concerns. The Faculty Senate will vote on the proposal.
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.
