The Cornell chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers is celebrating Black History Month with a variety of events expected to be well attended thanks to the student organization’s recent efforts to boost membership and revitalize its programming.
“Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder,” an exhibition running through June 11 at the Johnson Museum, marks the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of the celebrated Roman author, natural philosopher and statesman.
Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $7.8 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study whether the antibiotic doxycycline may slow the progression of emphysema in people living with well-controlled HIV.
Casey Platkin ’26 advocated for a minimum wage increase in California’s San Mateo County, where thousands of low-wage workers will see bigger paychecks.
Local officials, graduate students and faculty held a simulation exercise at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy on March 12 to work through questions around autonomous vehicles.
Cornell nutrition expert Angela Odoms-Young will serve as the vice chair of the national 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which will review scientific evidence regarding federal nutrition programs and policies and provide nutritional guidelines for all Americans.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor will discuss the latest developments in a region he knows well, at a virtual event on Tuesday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.
For day two of Chip Camp, Liverpool Central School District students came to the university to visit the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility for a crash course in the science of the very small.
Students are invited to enroll now for Cornell’s Summer Session where they can earn up to 15 credits. Courses are offered online, on campus and around the world in three-, six- and eight-week sessions between May 31 and August 2, 2022.
Visiting alumni filmmakers, Scott Ferguson ’82 and Michael Kantor ’83, told stories from their time at Cornell and their careers in film and television production and gave tips to students interested in entertainment careers.