The first-year class of students in the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity are finishing up their community projects and looking forward to their summer in New York City.
“I think the question that drives SETI’s work is one innate to the human species – seeking to prove that we are not alone in the universe,” said Ze-Wen Koh '23.
Two faculty members – one studying killer fungi and the other using yeast to find safer painkillers – are winners of Schwartz grants, given annually to female faculty or faculty who enhance the diversity, equity and inclusion goals of the university.
A Cornell graduate student partners with library experts to create an online collection of images of the Philippines during the early days of American annexation.
Sonia Rucker, formerly an associate director of diversity and inclusion in the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, will return to Cornell next month as the associate vice president of the Department of Inclusion and Belonging.
A consortium of 13 research institutions, including Cornell, received a $1.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch the Ivy+ Mellon Leadership Fellows program this fall.
Leading academics from around the country will join Cornell experts in a semester-long series, “Antisemitism and Islamophobia Examined,” in addition to a number of other talks exploring these critical issues.
Hailing from Azerbaijan to Uruguay, the new United States citizens from 23 different countries attended the first Tompkins County Naturalization Ceremony since the pandemic.
Speakers at “Dissident Writers: A Conversation” explored how writers keep freedoms open for others by taking risks to criticize governments or societies in environments where there is a cost.