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10th annual Mayfest features music, wine, yoga, poetry

The Department of Music celebrates the 10th anniversary of Mayfest, its annual springtime festival of world-class chamber music, with a variety of new events May 19-23.

Arts & Humanities
News & Events

SIRT6's ability to suppress cancer cell growth is explained

A research team led by chemistry professor Hening Lin has discovered a novel protein post-translational regulatory mechanism that shows promise in suppressing the proliferation of cancer cells.

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Clancy, Kolakowski named 2017 Kaplan Faculty Fellows

Paulette Clancy, the Bodman Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Heather Kolakowski, lecturer in the School of Hotel Administration, won 2017 Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowships April 25.

Food & Agriculture
Physical Sciences & Engineering
News & Events

Trump dump of Paris climate deal bad for business

May 10, 2017

President Trump is delaying decision on the U.S. participation in the Paris climate accord, a deal brokered by Obama which Trump has repeatedly criticized. Natalie Mahowald a professor in Cornell University’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty Director of Environment at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University and an expert on global and regional impact of climate change says it would be unfortunate if the Trump administration chose to forgo leadership on climate change.

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
Agriculture and Life Sciences

AG Sessions plan to toughen drug rules wrong turn for justice

May 10, 2017

Plans by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to toughen rules for prosecuting drug crimes reverses Obama-era policies. Joseph Margulies, professor of law and government at Cornell University, says such reversals constitute a wrong turn for the justice system.

Law and Policy

The Bridge architects talk design, academe and industry

Marion Weiss and Michael A. Manfredi, M.Arch. '80, cofounders of the Weiss/Manfredi architecture and landscape firm, gave an inside look at their design process of The Bridge at Cornell Tech.

Architecture & Design
Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship
New York City

Grateful fans flock to campus for Chimes concert

About 200 people gathered on Cornell's central campus in Ithaca to hear the Cornell Chimes pay tribute to the Grateful Dead on the 40th anniversary of the band's May 8, 1977, concert in Barton Hall.

Arts & Humanities
News & Events
Public Engagement

Financial aid policy change will benefit more undergraduates

Starting in fall 2018, new Cornell undergraduate students from middle-income families will benefit from more expansive financial aid from the university. The new policy broadens eligibility requirements for reduced loans.

News & Events
Inclusion and Belonging

Student-made films to screen at Schwartz Center

From stories of budding romances to a vampire huntress out for revenge, the Department of Performing and Media Arts will screen films written and directed by students at 7 p.m. May 15.

Arts & Humanities
News & Events

President Pollack reasserts student privacy protections

President Martha E. Pollack sent a message May 9 reassuring the Cornell community that the university will continue to protect the privacy of student information and records from any unauthorized disclosure.

News & Events