Climate change is impacting the Caribbean, with millions facing increasing food insecurity and decreasing freshwater availability as droughts become more likely across the region.
This Sunday Bryan Walters '10, the former record-breaking wide receiver at Cornell, lands on football’s biggest stage – Super Bowl XLVIII – playing for his beloved, boyhood-favorite Seattle Seahawks.
Cornell is ranked No. 15 of 100 on Kiplinger's list of the best values in private universities for 2014, based on costs, financial aid and academic quality.
The Proskauer Rose Employment and Labor Law Assistant Professorship has been established for an ILR assistant professor who engages in scholarly work in conflict resolution and collective bargaining. (Nov. 3, 2010)
A Cornell-led team was recently awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to develop a computational model of how humans form and update their memories of robots.
The Morphosis architectural firm, led by Thom Mayne, has been selected to design William H. Gates Hall, a building for Computing and Information Science that will foster collaborative research and learning. (July 9, 2010)
Cornell professors Jon Kleinberg and Paul McEuen, and Weill Cornell professor Carl Nathan, M.D., are among 72 new members of the National Academy of Sciences, announced May 3. (May 5, 2011)
Former Cornell faculty member Jean M.J. Frechet has been awarded a 2013 Japan Prize for his work in developing materials integral to semiconductor manufacturing.