In the third video of the Cornell Leadership Sessions series, President Martha E. Pollack and Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi discuss students’ stepping up to the challenges, and other topics.
This year, Cornell Homecoming is called “StayHomecoming” and will be held entirely online, though its spirit and theme of celebrating community remain intact – and as important as ever.
Programs that help low-income families access and keep cars provide more than just economic benefits, according to new research by Nicholas Klein, assistant professor of city and regional planning.
Tens of thousands of airline workers could face layoffs on Thursday, after Congressional relief aid designed to help airlines, among other industries, expired without an alternative bill in place. Arthur Wheaton, an expert in auto and airline industries at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, is available for interviews following layoff announcements today.
Internationally renowned physicist, human rights champion and Soviet-era dissident Yuri Orlov, professor emeritus of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Sept. 27 in Ithaca. He was 96.
Arthur Ashkin, Ph.D. ’52, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2018 for pioneering “optical tweezers” that use laser light to capture and manipulate microscopic particles, died Sept. 21 at his home in Rumson, N.J. He was 98.
Graduate students in six fields of study have designed an evolution lesson on speciation for undergraduate non-majors that applies active-learning techniques. The lesson was published in CourseSource.
Environmental scientist Benjamin Z. Houlton, the new dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, says agriculture is the most important industry of the 21st century – and a powerful weapon to combat climate change.
Equipped with Zoom rooms and social distancing tools in the age of COVID-19, a group of students is demystifying the mechanics of voter registration and casting a ballot.
Restaurants in New York City and other city centers around the country are making plans to reopen for reduced-capacity indoor dining. Lilly Jan, senior lecturer of food and beverage management at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell, says that restaurant operators should find creative ways to resume indoor dining while considering maintaining viable options for outdoor dining as well.
