The South Asia Program and Southeast Asia Program received more than $3.9 million in Title VI grants under the federal National Resource Centers and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships programs.
Dimensional Energy – a McGovern Center startup that converts carbon dioxide via sunshine into eco-friendly aviation fuel – is a finalist for the $20 million Carbon X Prize.
A team of graduate students in food science, mechanical engineering and biological engineering is among the winners of Phase 1 of the NASA Deep Space Food Challenge.
Assistant professor of architecture Jenny Sabin has won the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program design competition for "Lumen," a pavilion opening this summer at PS1 in Long Island City.
The Cornell Council for the Arts awarded grants to support 33 faculty- and student-led art projects being presented on campus in academic year 2015‐16.
Ranjit Singh, Ph.D. ’20, and Steven Jackson, associate professor of information science in Cornell Bowers CIS, examined how India’s biometrics-based identification system, Aadhaar, works for the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people.
Events this week include the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club Commencement Concert; a talk on better ornithology through technology; and exhibits at the Johnson Museum and Mann Library.
Cornell students participated in a weeklong kaleidoscope of climate change-awareness that involved strikes, symposia and meeting world leaders in New York City.
Professor of history Edward Baptist and assistant professor of English Ishion Hutchinson are among the newest Guggenheim Fellowship recipients named by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.