Immigration Reform Debate – a University Perspective, a panel discussion, will be held April 19. President David Skorton speak about economic and educational issues related to STEM graduate degree holders.
Over winter break in January, 14 Cornell Tradition undergraduates traded creature comforts for work gloves to help clean up homes in Puerto Rico, which is still reeling nearly five months after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.
Innovative plant breeders at Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are creating new fruits and vegetables that wow consumers, have longer growing seasons and are more resistant to diseases, insects and weather.
Cornell ranks No. 5 in producing Peace Corps volunteers among medium-sized colleges and universities nationwide, according to the 2014 Peace Corps’ annual ranking of schools.
A new paper from Cornell psychology professor Morten Christiansen argues language processing, acquisition and evolution, as well as the structure of language itself, are profoundly shaped by fundamental limitations on sensory and cognitive memory.
A letter by Ezra Cornell, who met Abraham Lincoln on the eve of his inauguration, reflects the founder's plain-spoken optimism. The letter will be on display Saturday, Sept. 19, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Kroch Library.
A new Cornell study reports that though vertebrate brains differ in size, composition and abilities, evolution of overall brain size accounts for most of these differences, with larger brains leading to greater capabilities.
Six doctoral students in the field of government presented papers and met fellow Ph.D. students and faculty interested in global security at a workshop May 23-25 in Sweden.
Edward O. Wilson, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner often considered the father of the modern environmental movement, will deliver the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture Friday, April 19.