A dozen undergrads were thrust into the teaching trenches this fall at DeWitt Middle School in Ithaca, where they shepherded 20 teenagers through a storytelling project in an after-school program they helped design.
A new initiative on Sustainability Via the Humanities and Arts will foster new collaborations between scientists and humanists, working on climate change, energy and other research areas. (Feb. 3, 2011)
Preliminary plans for the Energy Recovery Linac, a powerful new X-ray source, have been supported by $12 million in state funding, awarded last year. (Feb. 6, 2007)
Charles Staadecker '71 is honoring his alma mater and his 25th wedding anniversary with the commissioning of a concerto to be performed by the Seattle Symphony in April. (Feb. 13, 2009)
Musician Wynton Marsalis, artist Xu Bing, philosopher Bruno Latour, political scholar Theda Skocpol and astrophysicist David Stevenson, Ph.D. ’76, are Cornell's newest A.D. White Professors-at-Large.
Children at a small rural music school in Costa Rica will receive like-new instruments and one-on-one lessons when the Cornell University Wind Ensemble tours there in January. (December 05, 2005)
Cornell researchers, who are trying to understand how proteins evolve and function by looking at their structural features, have uncovered the crystal structure of a protein involved in making the building blocks of DNA correctly.
A panel of New York City startup executives spoke to Cornell students Feb. 1 to advise on the pros and cons of working for new or established companies. (Feb. 3, 2012)