An $11.5 million gift from entrepreneur C. Kenneth Grailer ’53 will support the Nolan School of Hotel Administration by expanding the Center for Hospitality Research, helping renovate the Grailer Food Labs and providing scholarships.
On March 13, the Department of Near Eastern Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences will host “Academic Freedom and Middle East Scholars after Oct. 7,” one of Cornell’s Freedom of Expression theme year events.
Cornell scientists are developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of planets outside of our solar system, but also could demonstrate evidence of water on those exoplanets.
Faculty members from the ILR School and the colleges of Human Ecology and of Arts and Sciences have received Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards, which recognize sustained and distinguished contributions to advising undergraduates.
Expanding on the growing popularity of videogame music playlists, Nintendo's new videogame music streaming app has already been downloaded over 1 million times.
A Cornell-led team will use a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to develop a “microbe-mineral atlas,” a catalog of microorganisms and how they interact with minerals, key for mining critical metals used for generating sustainable energy.