A new report calls for saving half of the 1.5 billion acres of North America's boreal forest – one of the world's last great forests – to protect the habitat for more than 300 migratory bird species.
The new issue of diacritics, the review of contemporary criticism published since 1971, focuses on climate change, the threat of nuclear war and the legacy of Jacques Derrida.
Cornell’s venerable Sheldon Court – a Collegetown residence hall that's more than a century old – earned first place in Unplugged 2014, the university's first annual energy saving competition among dormitories.
The Jeffrey S. Lehman Fund for Scholarly Exchange with China has made grants to Cornell faculty members and graduate students to support collaborative research projects.
Undergraduates and graduate students are learning about museum practice from a variety of disciplinary perspectives in courses partnering the Johnson Museum with other academic resources at Cornell.
A proposal to develop a portable, affordable turbidimeter, a tool for measuring water quality, has won a $90,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency’s People, Prosperity and the Planet student design competition.
The new website Finger Lakes LandLink seeks to link small-scale farmers with landowners to put more land in the region into agricultural production and support the local food economy.
Effective immediately, Cornell University has revoked recognition of Chi Psi fraternity for a period of no less than three years as a result of incidents that occurred during the spring 2014 semester involving hazing.