The Purpose Science and Innovation Exchange, an initiative in the College of Human Ecology that launched in April to study the burgeoning field of purpose, has received a $3 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and its eBird program, a participatory-science platform in which anyone around the world can submit bird sightings and sounds for scientists to use in research, recently hit a pair of major milestones.
High schoolers from Ithaca and Brooklyn produced the artworks depicting Morrison and a local student, a collaboration that promises to introduce Morrison's work to new generations of New Yorkers.
The ILR School released its annual New York at Work Report on Aug. 18 with findings related to care workers, domestic workers, people in the justice system and those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Cornell Tech Assistant Professor Raaz Dwivedi has co-founded Traversal, a startup emerging from stealth this week with a mission: to transform how modern software systems detect and resolve outages using artificial intelligence.
President Michael I. Kotlikoff told the nearly 4,800 first-year and transfer students and family members gathered Aug. 19 at Schoellkopf Field for New Student Convocation to “learn from the people who don’t think and speak like you.”
Cornell Tech researchers unveiled a robot that helps emergency room teams locate life-saving supplies faster, revealing how design can shape collaboration under pressure.
The celebration also features a welcome speech at 12:15 p.m. by Elaine L. Westbrooks, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, and open houses for the new Anthropology Collaboratory and Library Map Collection.