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Calculator estimates your risk of poverty during next 15 years

Now Americans can judge how close they are to falling into poverty, thanks to a new calculator developed by Cornell sociologist Thomas Hirschl and his collaborators. For many, the answer will be they are perilously close.

Union Days speaker: ‘there are no jobs on a dead planet’

Jeffrey Vogt of the International Trade Union Confederation spoke on campus March 17 about the domestic and international status of the trade union movement at the ILR School's Union Days.

Ground-nesting bees on farms lack food, grow smaller

According to a recent study, the size of a common ground-nesting bee – an important crop pollinator – has grown smaller in heavily farmed landscapes.

Add your voice to Klarman Hall time capsule

The College of Arts and Sciences hopes to capture life at Cornell today – especially the role of the humanities in our lives – as it assembles a time capsule to be buried May 26.

Metal-foam hybrid has potential in soft robotics, aeronautics

The lab of engineering professor Rob Shepherd has developed a hybrid material featuring soft metal and porous elastic polymer foam that could be used to make a morphing airplane wing.

Enzyme inhibitor looks promising against cancer

A Cornell multi-site research team has developed a chemical compound that shows promise as a oncoprotein inhibitor with broad anti-cancer activity and little effect on non-cancerous cells.

Nahshon Garrett, Gabe Dean crowned NCAA champions

Senior Nahshon Garrett won his first national title and junior Gabe Dean earned his second consecutive title in front of a frenzied, sold-out Madison Square Garden March 19 at the 2016 NCAA Wrestling Championships.

A thrilling Match Day at Weill Cornell Medicine

Members of Weill Cornell Medicine’s Class of 2016 learned on March 18, national Match Day, where they will be doing their internship and residency training.

Recalling Garrett as a 'force of nature with a stunning smile'

At venerable Bailey Hall, where the walls echo a century of concerts and educational lectures, more than 1,000 Cornellians reflected on the life and legacy of President Elizabeth Garrett at a moving memorial gathering March 17.

CALS, Weill Cornell Medicine hold events to honor Garrett

In events held at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and at Weill Cornell Medicine March 17, students, faculty and staff paid tribute to Cornell's late preside, Elizabeth Garrett.

Scholar details emergence of police-state tactics

City University of New York professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore delivered the Krieger Lecture at Cornell March 2 on "Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police."

Multiethnic student group Mixed receives 2016 Perkins Prize

The student group Mixed at Cornell received the recently renamed James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony, March 16 in Willard Straight Hall.