For the students on the Cornell Weed Team, who face endless marijuana wisecracks from nonscientists, competing in the Northeastern Weed Science Society’s tournament in Guelph is no joke.
The university’s long-term investments, consisting mainly of the endowment, reached a record high total of $10 billion after their largest single-year return in more than 35 years, according to the Office of University Investments.
New evidence from a zebrafish model of epilepsy may help resolve a debate into how seizures originate, according to Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators. The findings may also be useful in the discovery and development of future epilepsy drugs.
In two related virtual events, the Humanities Scholars Program, together with the Africana Studies and Research Center, will examine the topic of abolitionism from a scholarly and community perspective.
Participants in the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech’s Runway Startup Postdoc Program presented projects aimed at coping with coronavirus at a virtual demonstration April 1.
Natalie Mahowald says Mayor Bloomberg is on the right track for mitigating and adapting to climate change and will raise the profile of the topic now that he has entered the presidential race.
Cornell has announced that East Avenue, one of the main arteries through the Ithaca campus, will be renamed in honor of Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and the university’s most generous donor.
