The completely reconstructed Upson Hall – for 60 years an anchor on the Engineering Quad and home to the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering – has been certified LEED Platinum.
In an Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture Sept. 27, Rice University's Cary Wolfe asserted that biopolitics is an area in which the body, both human and non-human, is the object of political power. (Oct. 7, 2011)
To study the effects of global warming, scientists will begin collaborating this summer on the New York Climate-Change Science Clearinghouse, a comprehensive, web-based reference, map and database.
A five-year, $20 million National Science Foundation grant will allow chemists from Cornell and other institutions to study new ways to make plastics more sustainable.
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."
The Institute for the Social Sciences' new three-year theme project will examine causes and outcomes of U.S. mass incarceration and contribute to the prison reform policy debates on incarceration.