Cynthia Dwork, a computer scientist at Harvard University and pioneer of modern data privacy, will present three public lectures at Cornell May 5-7 as part of the University and Messenger Lecture Series.
Surrounded by friends and family, 106 students in the Class of 2029 participated in Weill Cornell Medical College’s annual White Coat Ceremony on Aug. 12, officially marking the beginning of their medical education.
In a new book, bioarcheologist Matthew Velasco argues that the reduction of head shape to a marker of ethnic identity has been a colonial invention, one that overlooked significant diversity in lived experience.
Study participants who watched scenes from popular movies showed emotion plays a larger role than previously understood in establishing event boundaries that help structure attention and memory.
The $2 million gift from Rebecca “Becky” Quinn Morgan ’60 and her husband, James C. Morgan ’60, MBA ’63, will endow a fund that supports early-stage research projects that meaningfully engage communities.
A new $1.5 million gift from philanthropist K. Lisa Yang ’74 has established the Charles Walcott Graduate Research Fellowship in Conservation Bioacoustics to fund graduate research at the Lab of Ornithology.
Snapshot NY aims to collect widespread data about animal populations throughout New York state - using thousands of trail cameras - and is engaging the public to aid the effort.
Laura Syer, vice president for budget and planning, will leave Cornell to become vice president for budget, financial planning and analysis at New York University. L. Rebecca Hann from the ILR School will serve as interim VP for budget and planning.