The third cohort of Posse Foundation students came to Cornell this fall. The full-scholarship and youth leadership program brings promising Chicago students to 10 top-tier universities.
Cornell hopes to bring nanotech to young students in the area with the establishment of CNF Ambassadors, an outreach program being run by the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility.
College Scholars Kasey Han '18, Severine Hex '18 and Conor Hodges '18 will undertake varied research projects that cross disciplines and fields of study, including inequality studies and circus arts.
Twelve teams of eLab students pitched their start-up business ideas to 54 alumni and prospective advisers at a New York City event Dec. 4. Ideas included an equine water monitoring system.
A $83,635 National Endowment for the Humanities will help the Cornell University Press make classic out-of-print books available electronically and free of charge to readers worldwide.
Lourdes Casanova, senior lecturer and academic director of the Emerging Markets Institute at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, was named one of the 50 Most Influential Intellectuals.
Jocelyn Rose, a professor of plant biology and director of Cornell's Institute of Biotechnology, is examining the hydrophobic cellular surface layer known as the cuticle in fleshy fruits.
Cornell Tech and Roosevelt Island public school P.S./I.S. 217 on Dec. 10 unveiled a three-year program that will train teachers to incorporate computer science activity across the curriculum.
Benedict Anderson, a Cornell professor emeritus in government who wrote “Imagined Communities,” the book that set the pace for the academic study of nationalism, died Dec. 13 in East Java, Indonesia. He was 79.
A new study reveals that zinc deficiency – a condition that affects 25 percent of the world’s population, especially in the developing world – alters the makeup of bacteria found in the intestine.
To help introduce new members of the university's faculty to the Cornell community, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles for the 2014-15 academic year.
A highly visible dog ear tag to mark and monitor treated and untreated strays is being developed by Cornell engineering and fiber science faculty though the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.
