A multidisciplinary team from Cornell won the $50,000 first prize in the annual Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Student Competition, for urban design and development scenarios to revive neighborhoods in Toronto.
The viruses ravaging cassava farms in Africa, and efforts to combat them through plant breeding, are the subject of a new Cornell University documentary film produced by International Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
The collaborative outdoor installation “Cornell: Safely Together” aims to make COVID-19 physical distancing a little more social, with mown patterns and furniture on the Ag and Arts quads.
Students and scholars can now freely search the Classical Works Knowledge Base, a new database of Latin and Greek authors that links to online versions of 5,200 works by 1,500 ancient authors.
Thanks to a $25,000 library grant, 225 talks from the Cornell Lecture Tapes Collection - including talks by Jacques Derrida, Toni Morrison and Timothy Leary - have been digitized and are publicly available online.
Hakim Weatherspoon, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, is leading a workshop aimed at minority college students to encourage advanced study in STEM fields.
Winners of the Cornell-based Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature have been announced. The award recognizes excellent writing in African languages and encourages translation.