With the rising popularity of MOOCs and other cutting-edge online educational opportunities, the recent Report of the Cornell Distance Learning Committee has endorsed the university’s practices while making recommendations for moving forward.
Researchers from Boyce Thompson Institute have found that plants manipulate nematode pheromones to repel the pests, which cause more than $100 million in damage to crops every year.
Agostino Agazzari's rarely staged 1606 opera “Eumelio” will be mounted by students, faculty and music professionals March 19-20 in the auditorium of Klarman Hall. The opera draws on the Orpheus myth.
The news was met with cheers from supporters on two continents. After months of negotiations, Cornell and Technion's proposal was announced the winner of a bid to build a groundbreaking campus in New York City.
Cornell University President Elizabeth Garrett died March 6 from colon cancer. She was 52. "There are few words to express the enormity of this loss," said Robert S. Harrison, chairman of the Cornell Board of Trustees.
Students in the Ceramic Analysis for Archeology class, who study ancient pottery shards, made some new pottery of their own, acquainting them with the process used by human forebears.