English professor George Hutchinson is the fifth director of the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, whose programs serve Cornell students in every school and college.
Cornell has secured a U.S. Department of Energy grant, expected to total about $7.2 million, which will fund exploratory research to help verify the feasibility of using a novel geothermal energy system to heat its campus buildings.
Horticulture senior lecturer Marcia Eames-Sheavly's Seed to Supper two-semester course sequence exposes students to a deeper level of community building and engagement.
Cornell University’s Shannon Gleeson, a professor of labor relations, law and history at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, comments on Trump's highly anticipated budget proposal will include $23 billion devoted to building a border wall along Mexico’s border and increased investment in immigration enforcement.
More than 40% of residents in 15 cities in the “global south” – developing nations in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America – still lack quality, affordable water that can be piped into dwellings.
Historic Preservation Planning students spent their annual Work Weekend doing restoration work on the historic Oneida Community Mansion House in Oneida, New York.
Cornell Library's SPARK Talks is a new series of five-minute lightning talks given by a multidisciplinary selection of graduate students and postdoctoral associates to general audiences.
More than 200 Cornell undergraduate and graduate students joined 40,000 scientists and boosters to champion knowledge in the first March for Science in Washington, D.C., April 22.
Cornell’s McNair Scholars shared their stories of academic excellence July 21-24, as they paid virtual visits to the offices of U.S. senators and representatives to advocate for more higher-education funding for first-generation and low-income students.
A pilot program proposed by two Cornell Law School scholars seeks to attract highly skilled immigrants through a points-based selection process, a change they say would benefit the U.S. immigration system and the economy.
