Students in the Cornell Urban Scholars Program in New York City this summer relate some of their experiences working with agencies and nonprofits to alleviate poverty. (Aug. 25, 2008)
Each spring semester, 36 scholars, representing approximately 1 percent of the graduating class, are named to receive this honor by the deans of each of the seven undergraduate colleges.
A new program modeled on the Rhodes Scholarship will include three Cornellians among its 111-member inaugural class: Juliana Batista ’16, Atticus DeProspo ’15 and Andrew Schoen ’12. They were chosen among 3,000 applicants.
Meeting weekly this semester for the Astronomy 6500 seminar, Cornell undergraduate and graduate students are conducting research – with six other universities – to help NASA find a landing site for the Mars 2020 mission.
Environmental sculptor Andy Goldsworthy will present a public lecture "Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time," on Dec. 4 , at 7:30 p.m. in the David Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall on the Cornell campus.
Toichiro Kinoshita, Cornell's Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics Emeritus, has received the Gian Carlo Wick Gold Medal from the World Federation of Scientists. (June 21, 2010)
Germinating from a campus incubator, Uma Bioseed – a startup business developed by Cornell MBA students – has won the 2015 New York Business Plan Competition, winning a $100,000 grand prize.
Celebrating its first year of research projects in India, the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative briefed faculty and students on drinking-water system projects, research on iron nutrition for women, and a food fortification study.
A Cornell-led international team of researchers has developed a way to harden natural calcite by a factor of two or more through the addition of amino acids aspartic acid and glycine.