The College of Arts and Sciences hopes to capture life at Cornell today – especially the role of the humanities in our lives – as it assembles a time capsule to be buried May 26.
Cornell researchers have discovered five new species of a group of bacteria called Listeria – including one named for Cornell, providing new insights that could lead to better ways to detect the soil bacteria in food.
Rohit Verma, dean of external relations at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, has been named founding provost of Vin University in Hanoi, Vietnam. His three-year appointment is effective July 1.
On Jan. 29, the Cornell Board of Trustees approved a standard that will guide its decisions on divesting university funds for socially responsible reasons. In applying that standard, it voted to refrain from divesting from fossil fuels.
A new graduate-level course that teaches students to communicate scientific ideas to a wide audience has helped to enhance a popular Ithaca children's museum.
Two Weill Cornell Medicine faculty members, Dr. Francis Lee and Dr. Jane Salmon, were elected to National Academy of Medicine, it was announced Oct. 17.
New research helps answer a long-standing mystery of how individual honeybees sense the size and strength of their colony, a critical assessment necessary for the bees' reproduction.
George C. Poppensiek, dean and professor emeritus in the College of Veterinary Medicine, died Sept. 8 in Ithaca. Poppensiek served as dean from 1959 to 1974.