Doctoral student Meredith Ramirez Talusan, M.A. ’11, who studies comparative literature, serendipitously taught a Filipino woman how to knit. A year later she started a social enterprise that now employs 25 knitters in the Philippines.
On May 19, four student start-up teams won $100,000 pre-seed funding and one year of co-working space in the Tata Innovation Center on Roosevelt Island.
The Cornell Astronomical Society is launching a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for renovations to Fuertes Observatory. The campaign kicks off with the annual Yuri's Night event, this year on Friday, April 14.
Ferdows, who served as an Afghan interpreter for the U.S. Army, says Cornell welcomed him with academic support, financial aid and camaraderie with other veteran students.
A tunnel-boring machine that will repair New York City's Delaware Aqueduct has been named in honor of Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, Class of 1905, a suffragist civil engineer.
Uli Wiesner and collaborators have developed a block copolymer self-assembled 3D energy storage architecture that could help change the way batteries are constructed.
Events on campus include South Asian dance at Pao Bhangra, a memorial concert for Steven Stucky, writer Denis Johnson, student art exhibitions and the annual Earth Day Springfest.
As the featured speaker at the first of the 2011 Soup and Hope series, Jan. 20, Renee Alexander '74 talked about success, overcoming adversity and coming home. (Jan. 24, 2011)
The fourth annual Town-Gown Resource Fair drew wide interest from around the community, including educators, area residents and members of social and governmental agencies.