Common Council is slated to vote on Dec. 6 on whether to allow Cornell to build a pair of safety barriers to restrict access to Fall Creek gorge through the former industrial site known as "Ezra's Tunnel."
Demonstrating the importance they place on town-gown relations, the presidents of Cornell University, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College will speak at the annual town-gown awards event Dec. 2.
As of Nov. 28, the Cornell United Way campaign has raised $473,260, or 63 percent of its goal of $750,000. This total includes more than $73,000 raised in the past two weeks.
Cultivating hops in New York state has its challenges, mainly from pests and two pervasive diseases, and Cornell researchers are lending a hand to new growers.
Upcoming Cooperative Extension events: Press Bay Holiday Market, Leadership in Our Midst: Cultivating Leader-full Organizations, Parents Apart® and more.
People with disabilities in the study were nearly 44 percent more likely to be arrested by age 28, while those without had a lower probability of arrest, at 30 percent. This “disability penalty” was strongest for African-American men.
Laura Lewis, a former Cornell staff member who soon will serve on the Common Council for the City of Ithaca’s Fifth Ward, will open the 2018 Soup & Hope biweekly series of personal narratives Jan. 18, noon to 1 p.m., in Sage Chapel.
Pre-ordering begins Nov. 30 for the one-day Apple sale Dec. 14. The sale is offered exclusively for Cornell University faculty and staff, employees of Weill Cornell Medicine and affiliated organizations on eligible personal purchases only.
A Cornell student, representing global youth constituencies at the Conference of the Parties (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, delivered a strong climate change statement to the convention delegates.
Professor Amy Villarejo, former chair of Performing and Media Arts, has been named the first faculty director for the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity.
Cornell engineering students are creating a state-of-the-art computer model to strategically place trees on highways near residential areas to mitigate pollution particles and improve human health.
Sage Chapel Christmas Vespers, an annual tradition at Cornell, returns this week with two programs, Dec. 3 and 4, at 7:30 p.m. Doors will open at 6:45 p.m. both nights. Admission is free and open to the public, first-come, first-seated.
