Thanks to multilingual Cornell students, 500 Ithaca-area children learning English as a second language each have a new book personalized just for them, with the English text translated into their native language.
Forty students with global health minors gathered to present their international service learning and research fieldwork to the Cornell community on issues from maternity to albinism Oct. 16.
Olúfémi Táíwò, professor of Africana studies, explores problems that African countries are currently facing and the progress of those nations in recent years in his new book, "Africa Must be Modern."
A Feb. 29 Cornell Law School panel, featuring professors Joe Margulies ‘82, John Blume and Valerie Hans, discussed the future of the death penalty in light of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death Feb. 13.
Roger Moseley and Lori Khatchadourian received Robert and Helen Appel Fellowships for Humanists and Social Scientists; Margo Crawford received the Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Academic Advising Award.
Five doctoral candidates and one postdoctoral associate at Cornell were recently inducted into the Cornell chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.
Chemistry professor Brian Crane has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor. As such, he will enhance Cornell's efforts to prepare students for more advanced chemistry and then research experiences.
John Carberry of University Communications issued a statement on Cornell's financial contributions to the city of Ithaca in response to criticism published in the media.
Success did not come easy to Sonia Sotomayor. She knows how much pain there is in life. But hard work, a determination to fight for her beliefs and an “innate optimism” helped propel her from a childhood in a Bronx housing project to her role as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Darrell Schlom, the Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Industrial Chemistry in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering.