Kwame Amponsah is one of several alumni entrepreneurs to establish businesses in Ithaca. He founded Xallent, a semiconductor device and test equipment manufacturing startup, while doing postdoctoral research at Cornell in 2013.
Cornell University’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future has selected 11 faculty for the pilot class of its new Fellowship for Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts.
Performing and media arts faculty members Nick Salvato and Aoise Stratford have co-written an innovative new play weaving truth and fiction, inspired by local history and a 1909 novel set in Ithaca.
Digital agriculture at Cornell has just been seeded for robust additional growth by being added as a strategic discipline area to the provost's radical collaboration initiative.
Architect Jenny Sabin has created a temporary outdoor installation that functions as a work of art and provides shade, seating and cooling for visitors to the Museum of Modern Art PS1 in Long Island City.
Veterinarians at the Cornell University Equine and Nemo Farm Animal Hospital saved the life of a reindeer, named Little Buddy, with help from his brother, Moose.
July's recent heat wave broke records for longevity and came close to all-time temperature highs in several major cities, says climatologist Jessica Rennells.
Cornell Cooperative Extension's New York Extension Disaster Education Network provides information on up-to-date best practices for families, farmers, businesses and communities recovering from disasters. (Oct. 31, 2012)
Civil rights activists Andrew Young, Vincent Harding and Dorothy Cotton will speak at the first Dorothy Cotton Institute Gala Dinner Tuesday, Dec. 10, when the three will receive Martin Luther King Jr. Awards from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.