Nominations are being accepted for the annual Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service Through Diversity. The award recognizes tenured and tenure-track faculty for their leadership in diversity.
Cornell is one of only seven institutions across the U.S. that will receive a funding award from the National Institutes of Health through a program aimed at increasing minority faculty in the biomedical sciences.
Cornell nutrition expert Angela Odoms-Young will serve as the vice chair of the national 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which will review scientific evidence regarding federal nutrition programs and policies and provide nutritional guidelines for all Americans.
The newly released Astro2020 decadal survey has ranked the projects the astronomer community wants to prioritize for the next 10 years. The 614-page NASA-sponsored report highlights the search for extraterrestrial life, as well as stressing the need for greater diversity among astronomy’s ranks.
"The Status of Child Care in New York State," a new report from the ILR School's Buffalo Co-Lab, finds recent increases in state subsidies have been insufficient to reduce inequities in child care access and quality.
Ben Maddox, the chief academic technology officer at New York University, has been named chief information officer for Cornell’s Ithaca campus and Cornell Tech.
Clues about life on exoplanets could be as strange as a bioluminescent glow or a rainbow hue, astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger describes in her new book, “Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos.”
Open to women and underrepresented faculty in the life sciences at Cornell, two awards – up to $25,000 each – will be given for research projects likely to generate novel preliminary data or a significant new line of inquiry.
Among her many accomplishments, Angela Winfield, J.D. ’08, associate vice president for inclusion and workforce diversity, led her team in developing the six-part staff training course “Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Cornell.”
