In a landmark national election Jan. 16, Taiwan elected Tsai Ing-wen, LL.M. '80, its next president. The first woman and the second Cornellian to hold Taiwan's highest office, she will assume the presidency May 20.
Eric Beaudette '16 won a $30,000 Geoffrey Beene National Scholarship from the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund at a gala in New York City Jan. 12. His recyclable clothes concept is called "Recycl3-D."
They identified a core group of genes that plants use to make symbiotic relationships with soil fungi, which provide soil minerals to the plant and may reduce the need for chemical fertilizers.
Weill Cornell Medicine doctoral candidates Kaitlyn Gayvert and Neel Madhukar have been named to Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30” list of young change agents in 20 professional fields.
Dr. Lewis C. Cantley, the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded the 2016 Wolf Prize in Medicine for his research discoveries.
“Black Lives Matter” is the theme of a community celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan. 18 in Ithaca, and founders of the Black Lives Matter movement will come to Cornell Feb. 3 for the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture.
Emeritus food science professor David K. Bandler donated 17.43 acres to Cornell Plantations' Fischer Old-Growth Forest Natural Area in the Town of Newfield. The preserve protects nearly 60 acres.
Four Cornell computer scientists - Ari Juels, Rafael Pass, Thomas Ristenpart and Vitaly Shmatikov - are members of a new cybersecurity, privacy and cryptography reach group at Cornell Tech.
College of Arts and Sciences faculty and graduate students are invited to submit proposals to digitize Cornell collections by Jan. 31. more than two dozen faculty members place collections online.
Using white blood cells to ferry potent cancer-killing proteins through the bloodstream, Cornell researchers have confirmed a new way to kill metastatic cancer tumors.