An $11.5 million gift from entrepreneur C. Kenneth Grailer ’53 will support the Nolan School of Hotel Administration by expanding the Center for Hospitality Research, helping renovate the Grailer Food Labs and providing scholarships.
An advanced imaging technique developed at Cornell has revealed the first two-dimensional, mechanically interlocked polymer – resembling the links in chainmail - confirming a breakthrough in both material design and electron microscopy.
The Center for Teaching Innovation published two series of adaptable case studies, from the Creative Teaching Awards and Provost’s Working Group for Innovation in Assessment, showcasing new Cornell faculty approaches to assessing student learning.
The exhibit celebrates a century of applying science and design to the study of the home, the result of a collaboration between the museum and the College of Human Ecology as part of its centennial year.
The Rothenberg-Moog 31-tone keyboard will be played by Xak Bjerken, professor of music in the College of Arts and Sciences, the first time it will be played in public.
Misty Copeland, a ballet icon and the first Black woman to be named principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre, encouraged graduating seniors to welcome moments of struggle, at this year's Senior Convocation, held in Barton Hall on May 22.