President Martha E. Pollack lauded faculty for recent honors, thanked donors for recent major gifts to Cornell and touted the university’s efforts on diversity and inclusion.
Researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Institute for Computational Sustainability are using big data and AI to model hidden patterns in nature – not just for one bird species, but for entire ecological communities across continents.
In some ways, the Class of 2024 is managing better than many people might have expected, but in others, the pandemic has made learning a lot more difficult.
In a fast-fashion, throw-clothes-away world, textile expert Juan Hinestroza (Human Ecology) and a group of scientists have new ways to recycle wasted polyester into new useful products.
A new episode of “The Humanities Pod” explores the language and materiality of belief through literary and anthropological methods of humanities research.
“The Hidden Life of Rosa Parks,” a new TED-Ed animated video written by Riché Richardson, explores Parks’ work with the NAACP, bus boycotts, and her lifelong fight against racial inequality.
Novelist Susan Choi, MFA ’95, whose novel "Trust Fall" won the 2019 National Book Award, will read from her New Yorker story "Flashlight" during a virtual event on April 22.
The archives of the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order (JPFO), which flourished for two decades before the Cold War, are now housed at Cornell’s Kheel Center, Catherwood Library. Videos from a December 2020 conference focused on the archives are now available online.
Scientists, technologists and businesses will show how space will be explored in the years to come during the inaugural Space Tech Industry Day, a virtual symposium hosted by Cornell on April 23.