Felix Heisel, an architect focused on the systematic redesign of the built environment, and Timur Dogan, an energy modeling expert and director of the Environmental Systems Lab, are helping the City of Ithaca with a plan to decarbonize and electrify all buildings.
Amartya Sen, professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, will give the annual Bartels World Affairs Lecture on May 5.
Sports films make important cultural statements, according to Samantha Sheppard, the Mary Armstrong Meduski ’80 Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, in her book, “Sporting Blackness.”
The Rural Humanities initiative has chosen “Rural Black Lives” as its theme for 2020-21, and its projects and programming will concentrate on the visibility of Black lives in rural central and western New York state.
The collaboration will support cross-institutional scientific partnerships between students and faculty at Cornell and N.C. A&T, a historically Black university that produces more African American engineers than any other university in the United States.
Anurag Agrawal, professor of environmental studies, and Maureen Hanson, professor of molecular biology and genetics, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the academy has announced.
Physicist Suzanne Staggs will talk about detecting radiation left over from the Big Bang, using the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, in the Spring Hans Bethe Lecture, March 11 in Rockefeller Hall.
The majestic robe owned by the iconic fashion editor André Leon Talley is the latest of several acquisitions that further diversify the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection.
A talk by Brig. Gen. Joseph Biehler, “The Role of the Military in Supporting State Crises,” will highlight campus events in observance of Veterans Day, on Nov. 11.
