Edward Buckler, United States Department of Agriculture and Cornell plant geneticist, has received the inaugural 2017 National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences.
Dining with Diverse Minds received the 21st annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony March 17 in Willard Straight Hall. Honorable mentions went to the Faculty Institute for Diversity and Breaking Bread.
Nominations for the Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate opened this week: Peer nominations are due Wednesday, Nov. 15, and all self-nominations are due Friday, Nov. 17.
The grant will fund a Weill Cornell Medicine-based program known as REACH: Research Enterprise to Advance a Cure for HIV, which was formed in late 2020.
Cornell researchers will tap into genetic information found in more than 700 species of related grasses to improve maize and sorghum, thanks to a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
More than 200 staff attended the 64th annual service recognition dinner, celebrating 25, 30, 35, 40 or more years of service, with two staff members celebrating 50 years.
As the first class of Nexus Scholars, funded entirely through philanthropy, 50 undergrads in the College of Arts and Sciences will take part in paid research projects in Ithaca this summer with faculty from throughout the college.
It was a celebration of centuries of African-American history. In November 2017, alumni, parents and friends gathered in Washington, D.C., for “Cornell at the National Museum of African American History and Culture,” to explore the exhibits, connect with the Cornell community and affirm the university’s motto of “… any person … any study.”
This spring witnessed many projects to make Cornell’s learning spaces more inclusive, but what does it take to put great ideas into action for change? On June 25, over 45 participants from across campus gathered to hear from a panel of innovative graduate students and postdocs.