Common Council is slated to vote on Dec. 6 on whether to allow Cornell to build a pair of safety barriers to restrict access to Fall Creek gorge through the former industrial site known as "Ezra's Tunnel."
Rachel Bean, an associate professor of astronomy, has been chosen to play a key role in a mission to better understand how the universe has been expanding and of what it is made.
O Canada! Oh Big Red! With a little more than three minutes left in the Women’s Hockey Gold Medal game Feb. 20 at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Cornell’s Brianne Jenner ’14 scored Canada’s first goal – setting into motion a sports resurgence for the ages.
Dr. David J. Skorton, president of Cornell, has been appointed to the Association of American Medical Colleges as an at-large member of its 2010-11 board of directors for a two-year term.
Mike Hoffmann, associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, discussed climate change issues July 29 for the Agricultural Working Group of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in Washington, D.C.
Cornell's Cislunar Explorers team has won the final phase of NASA's CubeSat competition and thus has earned a spot on a 2019 flight, in hope of completing its mission of a lunar orbit.
In enrolling students from low-income families, Cornell is in the top 15 among selective private colleges and universities in a recent survey – and is tied with Columbia at No. 1 in New York state and the Ivy League.
Native American sites abound in the Ithaca area but are hard to reach due to subsequent development and poor documentation, according to Kurt Jordan of the American Indian Program in a talk Sept. 19.
Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett said the results of an Association of American Universities campus sexual assault climate survey reinforce the need for expanded sexual assault prevention and awareness programs.