Dr. Michael Satlin at Weill Cornell Medicine and Ilana Brito in Ithaca are researching how to fight drug-resistant bacteria – "superbugs" that threaten cancer patients' fragile immune systems.
Native bees are better pollinators and more plentiful than honeybees, finds entomologist Bryan Danforth, who is involved in two big projects to further study native bee populations.
Civil rights activists Andrew Young, Vincent Harding and Dorothy Cotton will speak at the first Dorothy Cotton Institute Gala Dinner Tuesday, Dec. 10, when the three will receive Martin Luther King Jr. Awards from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Six new technologies received 2013 Center for Advanced Technology awards for feasibility and proof-of-concept research to enhance the commercial value of such innovations.
Professor of Africana studies Robert L. Harris Jr. has worked with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration on a new exhibition honoring 29 notable African-Americans from New York state.
Tucked away in the basement of Clark Hall are five staff members whose machining expertise is integral to the success of many of the designs, experiments and innovations of Cornell’s physics faculty, graduate students and postdocs, as well as to work done within other departments and units across campus.
Cornell's educational programs and support for all employees, as well as number of women in executive positions, have earned it a place as one of the nation's top nonprofit employers for executive women.
Achieving genuine diversity -- both of race and class -- remains one of the major challenges in the field of higher education in the 21st century. That challenge was addressed from a variety of perspectives during a powerhouse symposium in July that featured five current and former university presidents and a Stanford scholar. (Aug. 11, 2005)
As part of the Art of Horticulture course, three student designers modeled their own creations at a fashion show, with clothes made from plants. (Oct. 16, 2012)