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New website helps faculty, staff Navigate travel planning

A new website called Navigate is designed to save Cornell faculty members time and reduce stress in handling off-campus teaching, research and engagement, nationally and internationally.

Student discovers extinct plague locust specimens

Brandon Woo '19 uncovered three Rocky Mountain locusts in the Cornell University Insect Collection; the locusts wreaked agricultural havoc 150 years ago.

Jenny Sabin, Susan Rodriguez '81 earn architecture honors

Assistant professor of architecture Jenny Sabin and alumna Susan T. Rodriguez '81, B.Arch. '82, are among five winners of Architectural Record's 2016 Women in Architecture Awards.

Two with Cornell ties share 2016 Nobel Prize in physics

David J. Thouless, Ph.D. '58, and former postdoctoral researcher J. Michael Kosterlitz share the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in topological phase transitions of matter.

Report offers options for achieving carbon neutrality by 2035

The Senior Leaders Climate Action Group's report includes a financial analysis and feasibility study that would allow the university to make decisions based on costs and benefits in the context of its academic mission.

2017 Public Voices Fellowship applications due Nov. 7

The Provost’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity is accepting applications from tenured Cornell faculty for Public Voices Fellowships to increase the public impact Cornell faculty.

Mabaya is president of African agricultural economists group

Edward Mabaya, M.S. '98, Ph.D. '03, was elected president of the African Association of Agricultural Economists Sept. 23 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Time with kids boosts parents' well-being – and strain on moms

Parents experience greater happiness and meaning when they spend time with their children compared with time without their kids, according to a new study. But mothers were more stressed and fatigued while parenting than fathers.

Roundtable to explore potential of geothermal energy

An Oct. 17 roundtable discussion will drill deep into the promise of geothermal energy at a time when Cornell is considering a groundbreaking project of its own at 4:30 in 155 Olin Hall.

Gift lets entrepreneurship faculty hire assistants

Eight faculty members from five colleges, as well as Cornell Tech, won awards from the Louis H. Zalaznick Teaching Assistantship program, allowing them to expand courses or add teaching assistants.

Wildlife program gets $4.8 million to track NYS disease

The New York State Cooperative Wildlife Health Program – a partnership among Cornell and New York state to track and manage wildlife diseases – will receive $4.8 million over the five years.

Graduate students bring expertise to local schools

A volunteer program is connecting graduate students in the sciences and other fields with K-12 classrooms to teach mini-courses in Tompkins, Cayuga and Seneca county schools.