Wendy White, a painter and sculptor who highlights topics of masculinity while producing metaphors that address social and political issues, has been named the Teiger Mentor in the Arts by the Department of Art.
A combined $50 million commitment from Robert F. Smith '85, founder, chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, and the foundation of which he is a founding director will support chemical and biomolecular engineering and African-American and female students in Engineering in Ithaca and at Cornell Tech.
The Aizuri Quartet, with violinist and assistant professor of music Ariana Kim, won the grand prize and $100,000 at an international chamber music competition May 6.
The ongoing challenges we face as a society are social and technical, and demand both expertise and humanity – and they require the kind of education and knowledge that Cornellians strive for, said Cornell President Martha E. Pollack during her State of the University Address Oct. 18.
A new Android app developed by Cornell Tech researchers and collaborators will make it easy for people to collect their personal health data and share it with trusted medical providers or apps.
Jeff Niederdeppe, associate professor of communication at Cornell University, studies the mechanisms and effects of mass media campaigns, strategic health messages and news coverage in shaping health behavior. He says the potential restrictions highlight how flavored e-cigarettes are directly targeted toward young people.
The genetic changes that underlie an especially lethal type of prostate cancer, called neuroendocrine prostate cancer, have been revealed in a new study at Weill Cornell Medicine. Learning more about what causes this type of cancer could lead to new approaches for treating it.
Planning students converged last month on one of New York City's underappreciated historic landmarks: Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, the site of the 1964 New York World's Fair.
