A Cornell researcher is collaborating to help Scotland achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2045 through education to support new, stronger climate-action policies.
Andy Noel, the Meakem*Smith Director of Athletics and Physical Education, announced Richard A. Johnson '57 and Dale Reis Johnson '58 made a $1.5 million gift to the Cornell men’s tennis program.
Events on campus this week include talks by artist/scientist Joe Davis and scholar Judith Butler, films by Bill Morrison in Sage Chapel, concerts, plays and more.
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a symposium at Cornell Plantations March 15. The event is free and open to the public.
A new study suggests photorespiration wastes little energy and enhances nitrate assimilation, the process that converts nitrate absorbed from the soil into protein.
More communities can protect their residents from water shutoffs, through oversight or publicly owned water utilities, according to a new policy research paper co-authored by Mildred Warner, professor of city and regional planning.
Noliwe Rooks, associate professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University, is author of “Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education” a book that traces the financing of education in America from the civil war to today. Rooks says that the decision to return local control to Newark Public Schools presents an opportunity to create a quality education for the community.
The Cornell Council for the Arts has announced grant awards supporting 45 student, faculty, department and program projects to be presented on campus this academic year. (Nov. 16, 2011)
