On 4-H National Youth Science Day Oct. 5, young people nationwide will undertake an interactive engineering design challenge created by Cornell Cooperative Extension and the National 4-H Council.
Maura Cullen, an authority on diversity issues on college campuses, encouraged her audience to evaluate inherent biases and to overcome them in a campus talk Sept. 11.
Cornell events during June include Cinema Under the Stars, singer-songwriters, a program on nocturnal bird migration, a free local concert on the Arts Quad, and a lecture on cider research with a tasting.
The Colman Leadership Program, hosted by the Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement and Diversity Programs in Engineering, offered personal exploration to 26 Ph.D. students in all fields of study June 14-18.
Events on campus include four new exhibitions at the Johnson Museum, Cornell Cinema reopening after renovations with free films for students, and the first-ever Animal Health Hackathon.
The NSF has awarded Cornell $2.7 million to acquire a cryogenic, aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope. The microscope could revolutionize research in biology, physics and materials science
Cornell is leading the Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Materials thanks to a $25 million grant from the National Science Foundation.