Twenty-five years ago public intellectual Francis Fukuyama ’74 wrote an essay called “The End of History.” A campus panel Nov. 18 challenged many of Fukuyama's premises.
Dendrochronology research by professor Sturt Manning has established a secure timeline for the archaeological and historical chronology of Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C.
Eight students and a professor spent 10 days in Ghana over winter break, talking to women about their concerns for their communities. The findings will help shape future service trips to Ghana.
As part of the Cornell GK-12 Grass Roots program, four Cornell graduate students and two local teachers traveled to India to exchange best practices in science education with Indian schoolteachers.
Physics graduate students have grand ideas for what they might find once their detector, the Compact Muon Solenoid at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), goes back online later this year.
Researchers are studying how to harness potato plants’ natural response to environmental stress to develop a sustainable pest control strategy that increases crop yields and reduces insect damage.
A variety of language-learning programs serve the needs of more than 2,000 Cornell students who traveled to 108 countries in the 2013-14 to study, research or participate in a faculty-led experience.
An an exhibit curated by a Cornell art history professor focuses on the threat of rising ocean waters to the nation of Tuvalu this summer at the Venice Biennale.