Three young Cornell researchers have won National Institutes of Health New Innovator Awards. The awards provide up to $1.5 million over five years for innovative, high-impact projects.
Sara Xayarath Hernández, director of Diversity Programs in Engineering, has been named associate dean for inclusion and student engagement in the Graduate School. She will begin her new role this spring and also will serve as a University Diversity Officer.
With the rising popularity of MOOCs and other cutting-edge online educational opportunities, the recent Report of the Cornell Distance Learning Committee has endorsed the university’s practices while making recommendations for moving forward.
In a new paper, Cornell's Steven Strogatz tries to quantify the commonsense concept of “correlated novelties” - that one new thing sometimes triggers another.
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.
About 60 students, staff and faculty members met over dinner at a “Breaking Bread” event Feb. 10 to share their experiences and perspectives on race, religion and campus climate.
Professor Qi Wang's new book, “The Autobiographical Self in Time and Culture,” chronicles how the stories we remember and tell about ourselves are conditioned by one’s time and culture.
As one of 30 Kauffman fellow finalists selected this year, Aaron Holiday, MBA '12, will aim to work for two years for a leading venture capital firm. (April 11, 2012)