Award-winning architect and educator Brinda Somaya discussed her work on major restoration and design projects in India during her campus visit as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.
The National Science Foundation awarded grant funding that will help students from Puerto Rico access the experimental resources and expertise available to them at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source.
Forty-one Cornell graduates have joined the incoming Teach For America corps of 5,900 individuals this year, making Cornell the eighth-largest contributor of new teachers this year among schools of its size.
Physicist Joshua Frieman will deliver this spring's Hans Bethe Lecture on the Dark Universe Wednesday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
Applications are being accepted through Feb. 26 for the 2014 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony. The award will be presented March 11.
Ralph W.F. Hardy, a biochemist who called for better biotechnology research and scientific transparency regarding genetically modified foods, died Aug. 2 in Wilmington, Delaware, at age 82.