Academic breaks after high school – even those lasting just a few months – can cause some students, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to forgo enrolling in college altogether, according to new Cornell research.
On Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its monthly jobs report for September 2020. Russell Weaver, an economic geographer, says the September 2020 jobs report is likely to show small gains, but New York state is still lagging behind the rest of the nation.
A brand-new school at Cornell opened 75 years ago, Nov. 5, 1945, as the ILR School’s first students streamed into Warren Hall on the Ag Quad for Introduction to Industrial Relations.
New York Congressman Anthony Brindisi met Aug. 10 with farmers and agricultural thought leaders – including Kathryn Boor ’80, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences – for a tour of E-Z Acres dairy farm in Homer.
At Cornell, the Community Learning and Service Partnership (CLASP) program is breaking the mold by forming mutual learning opportunities between students and employees, providing an innovative approach to lifelong learning, mentoring and cross-cultural communication right on campus.
The funding will enable astronomy researchers at the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves consortium to continue their search for five more years.
As part of the 30th anniversary celebration of Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, Cornell will present the author’s “Desdemona” Oct. 27 and 28 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Cornell startups Ava Labs have new key partnerships with Deloitte and Mastercard, while university startup companies SwiftScale Biologics and Novomer have been acquired.
Most of the members of Cornell’s Class of 2023 were infants when the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 occurred. This fall,20 of them are exploring that time period in a new class, “Afterlives of 9-11.”
The pathogen listeria soon may become easier to track down in food recalls, thanks to a new genomic and geological mapping tool created by Cornell food scientists.
