With new funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Cornell faculty will investigate how SBHCs are not only leaving a positive impact on students, but also on the wider community’s well-being and public services across four counties in upstate New York.
This April, the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities welcomes Joseph Kimani, Executive Director of Slum Dwellers International–Kenya, to campus to share conversation and learning as both organizations seek to support informal settlement residents in their efforts to achieve increased housing security and equitable access to urban services.
Cornell scientists have identified the neural pathway mice use to direct the tongue to tactile targets: the superior colliculus, the same brain region that primates – including humans – use to direct their gaze to visual targets.
Jesse LeCavalier, an expert in infrastructure planning and a professor of architecture, Paul Mutolo, a chemist and director of External Partnerships for the Energy Materials Center, Rick Geddes, professor of policy analysis and management and founding director of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy and Art Wheaton, an expert on transportation industries and director of labor studies, comment on the Biden administration's new infrastructure plan for electric trucks.
Paths of the 3,574 students in the incoming class - including farmers, artists, inventors, entrepreneurs, athletes and altruists - all converge in Ithaca this week.
The third annual Community Engagement Awards brought together students, faculty, staff and community partners to celebrate the power of collaboration and connection. Hosted by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement on April 8 in the Statler Hotel Ballroom, the event recognized the diverse and far-reaching efforts of those working to create positive change in Ithaca and around the world.
Black drivers in Chicago are significantly more likely than white drivers to be stopped by police, finds a new study that uses mobile phone GPS data to map the racial composition of roads.
“Polycentric” development patterns can mitigate the urban heat island effect by distributing urban density and curbing the sprawl of impervious surfaces, a Cornell analysis finds.
Cornell students explored creative ways to understand urban landscapes during two cross-disciplinary courses this year, part of Cornell's Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities.
