Two tiny wasps have been found in Geneva, N.Y.: One hasn't been seen on this continent since its initial discovery by Cornell scientists in 1915, and the other has never been seen here.
Cornell Students Against Sweatshops will be presented with the American Labor Museum's social justice award for its role in promoting college apparel manufacturers who pay a living wage. (Nov. 15, 2010)
To foster the growth of equitable, healthful and sustainable community food systems, Cornell will receive $1 million of a five-year, $5 million multistate project. (June 21, 2011)
El Salvador and Guatemala join 84 other countries that now have access to The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library project, run out of Cornell's Mann Library. (Jan. 9, 2012)
Sarah Song, a student at Tappan Zee High School in Orangeburg, N.Y., is the winner of the first High School Fashion Design Award from the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design. (March 16, 2010)
Curtis Flowers, a Mississippi death row inmate, had been tried six times for four murders he says he did not commit. In June 2019, a Cornell Law School team convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that he had been the victim of racial bias.
John Blume and Sheri Lynn Johnson were both honored with the Thurgood Marshall Award for Capital Representation given by New York City's Bar for their pro bono work defending death row prisoners. (Sept. 11, 2008)
The Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell calls for legal system reforms regarding survivors of domestic violence who are convicted of crimes when protecting themselves from abuse. (June 7, 2011)
Cornell has selected next year’s massive open online courses – MOOCs – through which students anywhere will explore the ethics of eating, civic ecology, global hospitality or understanding your inner smartphone through the edX online initiative.