Cornell's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future has given $1.5 million from its Academic Venture Fund to 14 new university projects, marking the third year the grants are over $1 million.
Hundreds of Cornellians participated in a Big Red version of the "Antiques Road Show" Feb. 6 in New York City. Among the donated items is a piece of the goal post from Penn's Franklin Field taken down in the wake of a famous Cornell football win in 1958.
The university's Climate Change Demonstration Garden, located at the Cornell Botanic Gardens, illustrates how future temperature conditions may affect plants.
The Cornell Summer Session course Green Cities: Creating the Living City provides students with tools and ideas to shape the future of the ecological urban landscape.
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Joanne DeStefano discusses her newly expanded role, Cornell's financial challenges and being a part of the university's new leadership team.
Two Cornell Tech master's graduates have won a World Congress on Information Technology award for their computer-vision invention, Uru, which projects advertising onto blank surfaces in a video.
Professor of history Edward Baptist and assistant professor of English Ishion Hutchinson are among the newest Guggenheim Fellowship recipients named by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Peter Lepage, professor of physics and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve as the college’s first director of education innovation.