"Change-making: Designing Healthy and Hospitable Environments" (DEA 1112), offered this Winter Session online, explores how design innovations can have a positive impact on the everyday life of people in hospitality, health care and senior housing areas. The course also helps students explore possible careers.
In a study by Cornell psychology researchers, female applicants for scholarships or jobs were viewed less favorably than males when study participants, acting as decision-makers, were shown “sexy” social media photos of the applicants.
Cornell University Press and the Graduate School have partnered to create a flexible on-campus summer internship to offer humanities graduate students the chance to experience firsthand the work of an acquisitions professional.
Campus engineers have verified that the building – tailored for energy efficiency, including a recent retrofit of four rooftop exhaust stacks to recover heat – now saves the university nearly $670,000 a year.
An international collaboration has identified what may be the world's oldest work of art, a sequence of hand and footprints that date back to the middle of the Pleistocene era, on the Tibetan Plateau.
From uniquely challenging beginnings as an architecture student to her enduring dedication to her alma mater, AAP remembers Franny Shloss by her legacy of determination, generosity, and her artist's soul.
In the Spring 2022 Hans Bethe Lecture, physicist John Martinis will explain the basic concepts behind quantum computing, show recent data from a “quantum supremacy” experiment and explain future uses of quantum algorithms.
Johannes Lehmann, Colin Parrish, Bik-Kwoon Tye and Michelle Wang are Cornell’s 2023 electees to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the academy announced May 2 at the close of its 160th annual meeting.