Research related to the effects of climate change should be a high priority for applied federal research funds at Cornell, said participants at a daylong conference May 9.
Interim Provost David Harris, a scholar on race, ethnicity and public policy, is one of four Cornell social scientists leading a series of interactive seminars on inequality and socio-economic mobility. (Aug. 29, 2008)
The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future's Academic Venture Fund awarded $1.8 million in 2017, with 15 grants to seed novel approaches to some of the world's greatest sustainability challenges.
Cornell President David Skorton welcomed new students and their families to the 'worldwide Cornell family' in a convocation ceremony Aug. 23 in Shoellkopf Stadium. (Aug. 25, 2008)
Melissa Hines, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named director of the Cornell Center for Materials Research, after the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced renewed funding for the center for the next six years.
Alice Pell, international professor of animal science, was named director of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development, effective July 1.
The International Society of Chemical Ecology will present Alan Renwick, a senior scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., with the Silverstein-Simeone Award for Outstanding Research Chemical Ecology at its international meeting in Marseille, France, on Nov. 16.
Student Calvin Geoffrey Selth writes a response to criticism and vandalism of the fifth-anniversary celebration of the 'Open Hearts, Open Doors, Open Minds' initiative and the commemorative arches on campus.
As an undergraduate student leader and an active member of several minority organizations on campus, I would like to praise the fifth-anniversary celebration of the "Open Hearts, Open Doors, Open Minds" initiative. It is a…