Twelve faculty-led projects have been awarded approximately $213,000 in funding for development in 2016 Internationalizing the Cornell Curriculum grants.
Here's the scientific dirt: Soil can help reduce global warming. While farm soil grows the world's food and fiber, scientists are examining ways to use it to sequester carbon and to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
1 million and counting: Scientific-paper repository arXiv has reached milestone with a million submissions. Cornell University Library has provided stewardship for arXiv, since its founder, Paul Ginsparg, joined the faculty in 2001.
For decades, scientists have known that unhealthy surroundings induce human illness. Now, research suggests that communities of very sick people may damage the environment, according to a new study in PNAS, April 3.
An international research group led by Cornell University has found that plastic trash – ubiquitous throughout the world’s oceans – intensifies disease for coral, adding to reef peril.
New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger spoke on campus Nov. 10 about foreign policy in the Bush and Obama administrations and the future of modern warfare.
Through the Cornell in Turin summer program, students examined such hot-button issues as Brexit and the migrant crisis in the class Population Controversies in Europe and the U.S.
On April 17, Ngugi wa Thiong'o will share his thoughts in a discussion, “The Barrel of a Pen: Politics and Struggle in African Writing,” at 5 p.m. at the Africana Studies and Research Center, 310 Triphammer Road.