Two books by Lanre Akinsiku, a recent graduate of the Department of English's MFA program in fiction and a Cornell lecturer in English, earned top honors from the New York Public Library.
Four College of Arts and Sciences professors gave brief talks before engaging in a Q&A session with the audience about the documentary, "I Am Not Your Negro" Feb. 8 on campus.
Cornell is once again participating in the Wikipedia Art + Feminism edit-a-thon, designed to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia, on Saturday, March 11.
Newborns in neonatal intensive care units require lots of love. So when doctors put babies – and their families – into private hospital rooms, it may seem expensive. But in private rooms, babies heal faster.
Sara Warner, associate professor of performing and media arts in the College of Arts and Sciences and recently named a Stephen H. Weiss Junior Fellow, produces a political cabaret in Ithaca Feb. 19.
Darrell Schlom, the Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Industrial Chemistry in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Emeritus professor of physics Kurt Gottfried has been honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science with its Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award.
A new study analyzed close to 4,500 maize varieties bred and grown by farmers from 35 countries in the Americas to identify more than 1,000 genes driving large-scale adaptation to the environment.
A project to train graduate teaching assistants in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields to increase their use of active-learning classroom strategies has received a grant from the Association of American Universities.
At its January meeting, the Cornell Board of Trustees approved planning parameters for the university's 2017-18 budget, including tuition and housing and dining rates.