Professors gaze toward a secure, sustainable future

Deliberating security and a sustainable future, six professors from a variety of disciplines offered quick-takes on destiny – and how our society adjusts - at Charter Day Weekend.

Science can inform, correct convictions, panel shows

Wrongful convictions occur for a number of reasons, but Cornell research is showing how to address some of those factors and lead to more accurate verdicts, according to a Charter Day Weekend panel.

Seguin and Lassoie named 2015 Kaplan Faculty Fellows

Professors Rebecca Seguin and James Lassoie were named 2015 Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellows in Service-Learning April 21.

Big Red ribbons signal Charter Day Weekend's arrival

College of Human Ecology students tied dozens of red ribbons on trees lining East Avenue, Tower Road and the Arts Quad, signaling the start of this weekend’s sesquicentennial celebration.

Faculty schooled on new teaching styles to fit the digital age

Cornell design and environmental analysis students, working with architects and college administrators, conceived and built two new classrooms for the digital age in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.

Cornell Rewind: Keeping the faith in a nonsectarian way

The charter of Cornell University includes a remarkable statement: "And persons of every religious denomination, or of no religious denomination, shall be equally eligible to all offices and appointments."

Students present their research at 30th CURB forum

Studying everything from potential medicine to the aromatic properties of popular beverages, about 120 undergraduates put project posters on display April 22 at the 30th Annual Spring Research Forum.

Penner highlights Cornell's post-WWII ergonomic advances

Barbara Penner, 2014 Deans Fellow in the History of Home Economics, told of the explosion in ergonomic activity at Cornell in the years after WWII in an April 16 campus lecture.

Social sciences, arts, humanities focus of Atkinson Center pilot

Cornell University’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future has selected 11 faculty for the pilot class of its new Fellowship for Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts.