Avery August, professor of immunology in the College of Veterinary Medicine and incoming vice provost for academic affairs, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor.
Andy Sheng ’20 won the 14th annual Cornell Concerto Competition, Dec. 10 in Barnes Hall, with a Beethoven piano concerto. A physics, math and music major, he will perform the piece with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra in March.
The Cornell Small Farms Program is preparing the next generation of farmers and ranchers to succeed with a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Cornell climate scientists and their colleagues have developed a “robust null hypothesis” to assess the odds of a megadrought – one that lasts more than 30 years – occurring in the western and southwestern United States.