Calling staff “the unsung heroes of the university,” Cornell President Martha E. Pollack used her first address to staff to set an appreciative tone and broad context for the integral roles they play in Cornell’s success.
A new study of mosses brings scientists one step closer to solving a mystery in plant biology: how plants made the transition from water to land 450 million years ago.
Algerian-Italian novelist Amara Lakhous, author of the 2014 New Student Reading Project selection, “Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio,” will speak on campus Nov. 4.
Events on campus include a Cornell Cinema benefit and dance party, a rare 17th-century opera, young ornithologists sharing their research and a University Lecture by Islam scholar Sherman Jackson.
President Martha E. Pollack sent a message to the Cornell community Sept. 17 outlining steps to make the university a more equitable, inclusive and welcoming environment in the wake of recent racial incidents.
Educate the Vote: Presidential Election 2016 will feature a live academic debate among prominent political scientists and policy experts on key domestic policy issues Sept. 26 in Bailey Hall.
As Congress nears a deadline next week to approve a new budget or budget extension, the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program hangs in the balance. Shannon Gleeson, a Cornell University professor of labor relations and an expert on immigrant labor, has been working on a three-year long collaborative project to study how the DACA policy is implemented at the local level in Houston, New York City, San Francisco and San Jose.
Historian Raymond Craib's "The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile" offers a vivid view of the early and difficult history of Chile’s student anarchists.
Using data from millions of taxi trips, a group that included math professor Steven Strogatz applies a natural rescaling law to predict the ride-sharing potential for four major cities.
