CUSLAR, the Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations, celebrated its 50th anniversary with events on campus that brought back former members to reflect on future challenges facing Latin America.
A national study of higher ed administrators has found that female department chairs, deans and provosts have different attitudes and beliefs than their male counterparts about how to retain women professors in STEM fields.
Cornell's Upward Bound program, which prepares high schoolers in Groton and Elmira for college, has received $1.3 million in funding that will allow the program to expand to Newfield and Spencer-Van Etten.
Maggie Wong ’16 will work on labor trafficking in Cambodia, where forced labor and cross-border trafficking is common, in a year-long internship with an international nonprofit.
The AARP has named Cornell the top U.S. employer for workers 50 and older for the second consecutive year. CU is the first employer in AARP's history to be recognized as the No. 1 employer more than once. (Sept. 9, 2009)
In 1925 Cornell became the first institution of higher learning to award a doctorate in pure mathematics to an African American. But well before that, indeed, since its founding in 1865, Cornell had been pursuing cultural and intellectual variety on campus.
Vinay Ambegaokar, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics Emeritus, has been awarded the 2015 John Bardeen Prize in recognition of his theoretical physics research.
The first of its kind in the country, a new course in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences teaches the full cycle of production, from growing apples to fermenting cider.
Three Cornell University faculty will present big ideas on microbiome science to a gathering of influential thought leaders at the World Economic Forum Jan. 18 in Davos, Switzerland.