Lars Vilhuber, executive director of Cornell’s Labor Dynamics Institute, has spearheaded a new initiative at the American Economic Association to ensure that authors’ findings in scholarly work can be replicated.
Cornell’s nearly 50-year-old Empathy, Assistance and Referral Service (EARS) will begin offering a new model of support this fall, including peer mentoring, training and outreach.
Maureen Hanson, professor of molecular biology and genetics, and Bernice Grafstein, professor of neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A project funded by a 2017 grant from the provost’s Active Learning Initiative has resulted in calculus students and instructors seeing academic benefits, and a path to more consistently active pedagogy.
A coordinated COVID-19 testing program is a vital component of Cornell’s efforts to prevent the spread of the virus as Cornell reactivates its Ithaca campus. The university is now making testing results available on a new dashboard.
Richard Adie, managing director of Cornell University’s Statler Hotel from 2002 until his retirement in 2018, received the Howard Cogan Tourism Award from the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce March 28.
Ben Syer, Cornell men’s hockey associate head coach, has been named the recipient of the 2018 Terry Flanagan Award. This award is given by the American Hockey Coaches Association.
Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences and professor of astronomy, has been awarded the 2020 Carl Sagan Medal by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society.
Cornell’s Institute for Food Safety is teaming with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets to offer the first-ever in-state FDA course to train food inspectors across the state.