A national effort to rethink how graduate students in science, technology, engineering and math fields are trained was the topic of a Feb. 14 American Association for the Advancement of Science panel that included remarks from Bruce Lewenstein, Cornell professor of science communication.
The Law School’s Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic played an important role in helping the man secure asylum after an immigration judge’s initial ruling against him.
Computer scientist Lillian Lee has been named a fellow of thee Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for her work in natural language processing.
Most Americans underestimate just how concerned minorities and lower-income people are about environmental threats, according to a new study. In fact, those groups are consistently among the most worried about environmental challenges.
Cornell received a Forrester Groundswell Award Nov. 19 for the globalrust.org website, which provides tools for people fighting the virulent new diseases of wheat that threaten world food security. (Nov. 29, 2010)
In 1912, Hu Shih, Class of 1914, and a group of friends donated 350 Chinese-language books to Cornell University Library “to add something to the completeness of the library itself.”
The Fourth Eurasian Archaeology Conference Oct. 11-13 explored the uneven process of historical transformation and the temporal rhythms of social life. (Oct. 30, 2012)
To help introduce new members of the university's faculty to the Cornell community, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles for the 2014-15 academic year.
Two design and environmental analysis classes collaborated to research, design and build full-scale furniture and play systems for a local Head Start program. (Dec. 12, 2011)