Events this week include 'The Martian' at Cornell Cinema, the Chorus and Glee Club's return from tour concert, new exhibits at the Johnson Museum and the People's State of the Union.
Cornell has been recognized for its campuswide diversity and inclusion efforts with the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award. This is the second year Cornell has received this award.
Weill Cornell Medicine doctoral candidates Kaitlyn Gayvert and Neel Madhukar have been named to Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30” list of young change agents in 20 professional fields.
Mohammad Hamidian, Ph.D. ’11, has been named the 2016 winner of the Lee-Osheroff-Richardson Prize for his discoveries of new forms of electronic matter at the nanoscale and at extreme low temperatures.
Cornell has moved up one spot in the annual college rankings from U.S. News and World Report, which places the university at No. 15, up from 16 last year, out of 280 schools that offer a wide range of undergraduate majors along with master’s and doctoral degrees.
In a panel of new proposed federal dietary guidelines in Washington, D.C., March 18, two Cornell professors look at their potential impact and food-industry efforts to weaken the guidelines.
An online venture capital fund using the Ethereum system of digital currency has serious flaws, according to Emin Gun Sirer, associate professor of computer science.