Forty Cornellians helped plant trees and remove debris Nov. 9 in Breezy Point, Queens, N.Y., where residents are still recovering from the impacts of last year’s Hurricane Sandy.
The Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science is welcoming 13 new faculty members in the departments of Computer Science, Information Science and Statistics and Data Science. Collectively, their work ranges from developing robots that assist people with mobility limitations to using computational tools to study inequality and graphical models to solve real-world problems.
For freshwater environmental education projects and for helping save the American eel throughout the New York City region, Chris Bowser, an extension support specialist for Cornell’s New York State Water Resources Institute, has won a U.S. EPA Environmental Quality Award.
“Systemic Racism and Health Equity,” a webinar hosted July 23 by the Cornell Center for Health Equity, featured insights from three expert panelists and moderator Jamila Michener, associate professor of government and center co-director.
Cornell University is a state of mind, and both a beginning and a destination, much like the "Ithaka" of C.P. Cavafy's poem about Ulysses' journey home, said President Elizabeth Garrett at her inauguration as Cornell's 13th president.
Stephen Cole, who helped establish one of the nation’s first master’s programs in acting at Cornell in the 1960s and whose students included Jimmy Smits and Christopher Reeve, has died.
Researchers Andrew Myers, Elaine Shi, Greg Morrisett and Rafael Pass will explore a new approach that will make it easier to use cryptography to build more-secure systems.
Students, faculty and their community partners have received Engaged Cornell research grants to study education, inequality and equity, and community health and sustainability in New York state and international settings.