Historian Edward Baptist provides an account of slavery's role in America becoming a global superpower in his new book, "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism."
Undergraduates from across the country are spending several weeks at Cornell this summer researching topics in accelerator physics or X-ray science thanks to two programs funded by the National Science Foundation.
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education annual Circle of Excellence Awards has given bronze medals to two Cornell websites and a silver medal for alumni relations programs. (June 21, 2011)
Weill Cornell Medicine has entered into an agreement with Top Spring Huaxia Medical Investment to help it develop a modern outpatient diagnostic clinic in Shenzhen, China.
Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute are studying the bacterium speck, which causes withered flowers and dark spots on leaves and fruits, and can result in the loss of whole fields of crops.
A $7.5 million gift from the Macaulay Family Foundation to the the Cornell Lab of Ornithology will expand the Macaulay Library's scientific archive of natural sound and video recordings.
Thirteen social scientists from across the university are joining the Institute for the Social Sciences as fellows-in-residence during the 2015-16 academic year.
L. Pearce Williams ’49, Ph.D. ‘52, who taught the history of Western civilization and the history of science for four decades at Cornell, died Feb. 7 in Ithaca. He was 87.
'Opportunities for Innovation in the Down Economy' was the theme for Hotel Ezra Cornell, a student-run event that brings together hospitality leaders, alumni and students. (April 13, 2010)