At its May 23 meeting, the Cornell Board of Trustees elected five new trustees and reelected six current trustees to four-year terms. They all join recent alumni- and student-elected trustees.
Sturt Manning, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Classic, received the P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award at the Annual Meetings of the American Society of Overseas Research, in November in Boston.
Leading AI scholars met to discuss fundamental design problems and systemic issues with large language models (LLMs) and how they could better serve the global population.
Art Wheaton, director of Labor Studies at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, says there has been incredible pressure on air traffic controllers going back to the Reagan administration.
Kristen Warner, an associate professor of performing and media arts at Cornell University, says that the snub may be due to the use of a unique cinematography technique which challenges viewers to look at their own characters instead of just looking at characters on screen.
Humans have bred pug dogs and Persian cats to evolve with very similar skulls and “smushed” faces, so they’re more similar to each other than they are to most other dogs or cats.
With a ceremonial ribbon-cutting, Interim President Michael I. Kotlikoff on March 11 officially launched the Abruña Energy Initiative Level 3 EV fast-charging station, named in honor of initiative founder Héctor D. Abruña, professor of chemistry.
As an avid reader of personal advice columns, historian Mary Beth Norton found the perfect confluence of interests in the Athenian Mercury, a London periodical published from 1691-97 that answered readers’ questions about love and marriage.
For the first time, the annual Lauren Pickard ’90 Emerging Artists Series in Willard Straight Hall, held Nov. 14, included an art gallery of student work. The event traditionally showcased up-and-coming musical acts.
