Cornell has moved up one spot in the annual college rankings from U.S. News and World Report, which places the university at No. 15, up from 16 last year, out of 280 schools that offer a wide range of undergraduate majors along with master’s and doctoral degrees.
The Africana Studies and Research Center will host a symposium, "Strange Bedfellows: White Supremacy and Abolitionism," Feb. 13, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Hoyt Fuller Room of the center, 310 Triphammer Road.
City University of New York professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore delivered the Krieger Lecture at Cornell March 2 on "Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police."
Cornell professors Laura Harrington and Alaka Basu briefed the Washington, D.C., press March 15 on the fight against the mosquito-spread Zika virus, which threatens pregnant women worldwide.
Cornell's future lies in its ability to take advantage of being the only institution in New York that bridges the divide between upstate and downstate, said President Rawlings in his State of the University Address Oct. 28.
George Scangos '70, CEO of Biogen, one of the most valuable biotech companies in the country, discussed balancing the needs of Wall Street and patients during his lecture as the Robert S. Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education.
Political scientist Adam Seth Levine offers a new perspective on barriers to political involvement on economic insecurity concerns in his new book, "American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction."
Cornell Botanic Gardens was officially approved Oct. 28 by the Cornell Board of Trustees, the final step in a broad rebranding effort begun more than two years ago.
The key to curing multiple sclerosis may well lie in the mysterious signaling of lipids, a major component of cells, says Cornell chemist Jeremy Baskin.
Two hundred teens and preteens from 16 school districts in southeastern New York learned how to decrease their schools’ environmental impact at the Catskills Youth Climate Change Summit March 11.