Five Cornell assistant professors have been honored by the National Science Foundation with Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards, with funding totaling more than $2.5 million.
Olúfémi Táíwò, professor of Africana studies, explores problems that African countries are currently facing and the progress of those nations in recent years in his new book, "Africa Must be Modern."
Indoor spaces offer a new research frontier for studies in ecology and evolutionary biology of organisms that live inside built environments, according to a paper authored by a Cornell graduate student.
Historian Edward Baptist provides an account of slavery's role in America becoming a global superpower in his new book, "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism."
Events this week include student art exhibits, a conference on exile, projects from a healing plants course, a veterans' resource fair and the return of the Internet Cat Video Festival.
Interim President Hunter Rawlings has sent a letter to the Cornell community outlining the university's position on graduate student unionization and offering his perspective on how issues of unionization could affect graduate education at Cornell.
The Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes hosted a Cancer Moonshot Summit June 29 to support a White House initiative to double the rate of cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
On May 21 Google CEO Larry Page, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President David Skorton announced Google's plan to provide initially 22,000 square feet of its Eighth Avenue building to Cornell free of charge.