Graduate students win new sustainability grants for research on biogeochemical processes related to climate science and research on sustainable biodiversity.
Cornell's Einaudi Center for International Studies awards travel grants to more than 150 grad students a year. Its semiannual photo contest captures the diversity of the students' destinations. (March 7, 2007)
Olúfémi Táíwò, professor of Africana studies, explores problems that African countries are currently facing and the progress of those nations in recent years in his new book, "Africa Must be Modern."
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.
President David Skorton welcomed new students and their families to campus Aug. 21 at convocation. He emphasized that Cornell is 'a strong and a positive and a diverse and very supportive community.' (Aug. 21, 2010)
The conference, Cornell Mosaic: Celebrating Diversity and Advancing Inclusion on the will bring together African-American, Asian, Latino and Native American alumni and faculty to promote interaction and to discuss, issues of concern to their communities.
A new study finds that emissions from fire activity were significantly greater in the preindustrial era, which began around 1750, than previously thought.
Deputy Provost David Harris has announced he will take an extended leave of absence to join the Obama administration. His last day on campus will be March 19. (March 15, 2010)
"Side by Side," artist Pepón Osorio's Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial installation in Rand Hall, depicts one local family in the context of empathy as a point of contact within social systems.