To find the detailed building blocks of life in the cosmos, a new instrument will be placed on NASA’s SOFIA – the airliner-based Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy - by Professor Gordon Stacey.
Adam Berry '18, a chemical and biomolecular engineering major, traveled to Germany over the summer to conduct research as part of the International Research Experience for Undergraduates program.
As the university remains at a second-stage drought level, Cornell Dining has developed a new recipe to curtail water use. The effort is paying off, while the system saves 30,000 gallons on water each day.
Both the county and Cornell United Way campaigns for 2016-17 kicked off last week, focusing on how gifts to the United Way help local agencies meet the basic needs of donors' friends and neighbors.
One group seems immune to the rush of self-esteem that comes with an online thumbs-up: people with a sense of purpose, which limits how reactive people are to positive feedback on social media.
The new field of media studies will be explored in a yearlong series of lectures beginning Oct. 6 that focus on emerging research, particularly by younger scholars in the field.
The Fifth Biennial Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference at Cornell Sept. 15-16 shined the spotlight the children of incarcerated parents and featured a multidisciplinary mix of scholars.
S. Kay Obendorf, who retired in June after 50 years at Cornell in the College of Human Ecology, was honored Sept. 8 with the unveiling of a quarter-scale model of “PolyForm,” an architectural art installation by Jenny Sabin at Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick '09 will discuss the Ithaca Plan: A Public Health and Safety Approach to Drugs and Drug Policy at noon Thursday, Sept. 29, in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.
Almost 100 people gathered Sept. 19 to kick off a yearlong conversation, "Freedom Interrupted: Race, Gender, Nation and Policing," an interdisciplinary cross-campus collaboration.