Winters are getting warmer and some crops are starting to bloom earlier. Climate change is already upon us, but changes are not uniform across regions or species.
Scott Emr, a highly respected biologist, who has been hired as the Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 endowed director of a new Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology.
Susan E. Lynch, an active supporter of Cornell University, has established the Susan Eckert Lynch Professorship in Science and Business in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS).
The Partnership for the Public Good, founded in Buffalo in 2007 by the ILR School, is working with local groups to make the city a model of urban regeneration and create policies advancing equity and sustainability.
NBC's Robert C. Wright will deliver this year's Hatfield address at Cornell University on Thursday, Nov. 9, at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall.
The following are quotations from an address by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Cornell's Senior Convocation, held from noon to 1 p.m. on May 25 in Barton Hall.
In 1940 near a small town in southern Poland called Oswiecim, close to the confluence of the Vistula and Sola rivers, the Germans built an enormous camp they called Auschwitz. Between 1940 and early 1945, according to the 'Encyclopedia Britannica,' between 1 million and 5 million people, many of them Jews, were killed.
On P.S. 84's rooftop in New York City, students tend an herb garden and share the harvest with school staff and others in their lunchroom. At an elementary school in Van Etten, N.Y., second-graders grow their own "vegetable soup"…
Brian Holmes, professor of physics at San Jose State University, will present a lecture, "The Workings of Brass Musical Instruments, or What Do Horn Players Do With Their Right Hands," Nov. 13, at 3 p.m. in Barnes Hall.