A versatile architectural technology created by a Cornell design professor has been adopted by sustainability-minded students to build bamboo-based hurricane- and earthquake-resistant structures.
Steven D. Tanksley, a molecular geneticist who pioneered concepts essential to modern plant breeding while a professor at Cornell University, has won the prestigious Japan Prize worth $420,000.
The university is putting in place travel restrictions, given the evolving Ebola situation and its responsibility to protect the health of the community. Messages have been emailed to all students, faculty and staff.
A new exhibit, “Chinese Traditional Dress and Its Influence,” provides an overview of Chinese dress of the Qing period and the influence of Eastern style on Western fashions in the early 20th century.
Following a workshop he led in Kenya, Mukoma Wa Ngugi hopes to foster further dialogue between academic writers and journalists, using concepts of literary and cultural theory and criticism.
Faculty, students and administrators discussed global experiences, opportunities and challenges on campus and abroad at a recent symposium on Internationalizing the Curriculum at Cornell.
Doctoral student Meredith Ramirez Talusan, M.A. ’11, who studies comparative literature, serendipitously taught a Filipino woman how to knit. A year later she started a social enterprise that now employs 25 knitters in the Philippines.