On Jan. 29, the Cornell Board of Trustees approved a standard that will guide its decisions on divesting university funds for socially responsible reasons. In applying that standard, it voted to refrain from divesting from fossil fuels.
Approximately 500 Cornell alumni and friends gathered Jan. 29 in New York City to mark the completion of Cornell's capital campaign, which raised $6.36 billion for university priorities.
In his new book, Russell Rickford, assistant professor of history, looks at the impact of black national and Pan-African schools founded in the 1960s and 70s as part of the civil rights movement.
Students and scholars can now freely search the Classical Works Knowledge Base, a new database of Latin and Greek authors that links to online versions of 5,200 works by 1,500 ancient authors.
A Cornell economist and his colleagues have found the geographical areas that have an NFL team advance to the Super Bowl had an 18 percent spike in flu-related deaths among people above age 65.
The Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships, which recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching, has been expanded to include two new awards for outstanding teaching by junior faculty and non-tenure-track faculty.
Charles Aquadro, Laura Harrington and Sean Nicholson are recipients of the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship for outstanding teaching of undergraduates.
A developer for the site of the current Maplewood Park Apartments and a pre-development agreement were approved at a trustee committee meeting Jan. 28, the first step in increasing affordable housing for Cornell graduate and professional students.
Cornell University announced today that it will establish an integrated College of Business with the transformative excellence, scope and scale to cement the university’s position as a world-class center of teaching and research for business management and entrepreneurship.
A combined $50 million commitment from Robert F. Smith '85, founder, chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, and the foundation of which he is a founding director will support chemical and biomolecular engineering and African-American and female students in Engineering in Ithaca and at Cornell Tech.
A Cornell team has created the first self-assembled three-dimensional superconductor, another step toward creation of a material that could act as a superconductor at or above room temperature.
Thirteen students and two faculty members from the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design traveled to India Jan. 2-16 in a class trip to visit textile and apparel production centers.
