Bhargav Sanketi won Cornell’s 2021 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. 3MT challenges graduate students to present their thesis research compellingly to general audiences in just three minutes.
The Peter ’69 and Marilyn ’69 Coors Conversation Series will provide a forum for “intellectual discourse on difficult yet timely issues facing the nation.”
Barbara Graziosi, a professor of classics at Princeton University, will deliver the three-part Townsend Lectures, Sept. 10, 13 and 17, on the theme of “Homecoming and Homemaking in the Ancient Mediterranean.”
From quantifying climate vulnerability in Haiti to documenting the ecological calendars of Indigenous and rural communities, Cornell student projects aim to reduce climate impacts around the world.
Medical student Nina Acharya ’19, one of 11 newly elected Rhodes Scholars from Canada, will go to Oxford University next fall to study children’s nutrition interventions in vulnerable communities.
The Cornell Alliance for Science is expanding its mission of science communication and advocacy and broadening its commitment to diversity and inclusion thanks to $10 million in new funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Attracting more than 1,000 students every fall, Intro to Oceanography is the largest course at Cornell. When Senior Lecturer Bruce Monger started recording the lectures for remote teaching, he partnered with eCornell and ended up developing a publicly accessible oceanography and climate sustainability course too.
Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and the university’s most generous donor, will be the first recipient of a new Cornell award created in his name to honor successful and generous entrepreneurs.
On April 21 and 24 Cornell classics students will stage the ancient Seneca play “Troades” in the original Latin, demonstrating the power of Seneca’s language and the vigor of Cornell’s living Latin program.