On its first-ever Giving Day, March 25, the university received donations from more than 9,600 people totaling $6.97 million dollars. The gifts, mostly made online, came from people in every U.S. state and 52 countries on six continents.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has funded a $2.3 million study to enhance the market value of organically grown heritage wheat, emmer, spelt and einkorn. (Oct. 27, 2011)
'What Works?,' a documentary produced by the ILR School, explains how collaboration between schools, businesses and students with disabilities pays off with jobs for teens. (Oct. 27, 2011)
The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute at Cornell Tech has announced that six postdocs are joining the campus for the first Runway Program, a new model for technology entrepreneurs at the Ph.D. level.
Worry not, they don't bite. After a 16-year slumber underground, the 17-year cicadas – with their raucous rib-rendered buzz – return this spring, says Cole Gilbert, associate professor of entomology.
Weill Cornell Medical College students learned where they will do their residency training – the next three to seven years of their medical careers – during national Match Day, March 20.
NEW YORK -- An experimental drug targeted to a cancer-causing mechanism within the cell may be a powerful weapon against deadly multiple myeloma.
So concludes a team of researchers at the Weill Medical College of Cornell…
A tree grows in Brooklyn — despite big-city air pollutants. Meanwhile, identical trees planted downwind of city pollution grow only half as well — a surprising finding that ecologists in a Cornell University-based study, reported in the current issue of Nature.
Richard Baker '88, a classic American success story in real estate who gave $11 million to Cornell's Program in Real Estate earlier this year, spoke on campus Oct. 23. (Oct. 31, 2012)