The Math Explorer's Club brings opportunities to learn new math techniques and apply them to a real-life situations to local middle and high school kids.
Cornell structural biologists took a new approach to using a classic method of X-ray analysis to capture something the conventional method had never accounted for: the collective motion of proteins.
President David Skorton, Dean Peter Lepage and donors Seth '79 and Beth Klarman celebrated the groundbreaking May 23 for Klarman Hall, the first new building for the humanities on central campus in 108 years.
Recent transfer student and horticulture enthusiast Justin Kondrat ’14 has led a project with the help of nearly 100 Cornellians to plant some 50,000 blooming flowers that spell out the word “rooted” in 10-foot letters on Libe Slope; the display will glow nightly until May 1.
Cornell’s Polson Institute for Global Development will host “Reducing Campus Food Waste: Innovations and Ideas,” a lecture and workshop May 2-3 on campus.
Cornell University Library will develop new tools and methods to better describe libraries’ scholarly information resources and share them, thanks to a $1.5 million Mellon Foundation grant.
The new issue of diacritics, the review of contemporary criticism published since 1971, focuses on climate change, the threat of nuclear war and the legacy of Jacques Derrida.